The Audit

Harry Potter Hits the E-Book Market

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 29, 2012 at 05:42 PM

I've never understood quite why, in a digital age that allows companies to sell directly to their customers, that book... More

Audit Notes: Chart of the Day, Trayvon Martin Sourcing, Updates

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 28, 2012 at 07:34 PM

The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien pulls the chart of the day from Ireland's Central Statistics Office: This shows the change in... More

The WaPo Ombudsman’s Faulty Paywall Analysis

The NYT’s meter is saving or adding more than $70 million in revenue a year already

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 28, 2012 at 02:17 AM

Washington Post ombudsman Patrick B. Pexton has a flawed analysis on the logic of a possible paywall there and on... More

Audit Notes: Hollywood Rolls, Ryan’s Loopholes, Regulation and Racing

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 27, 2012 at 01:40 AM

Looking at this Wall Street Journal graphic, you'd think Hollywood has been on some kind of epic roll the last... More

Sourcing Trayvon Martin “Photos” From Stormfront

Not a good idea, Business Insider

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2012 at 02:48 PM

Business Insider runs a linkbait post with a graphic of Trayvon Martin images it found on the neonazi website Stormfront.... More

Audit Notes: N.J., Paragon of Clean Government; Algae Fuel, Fees, The Rich (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2012 at 07:35 PM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil just guts a Center for Public Integrity report card on state corruption. It found that New Jersey... More

The AP’s Weak Coverage of Its New Boss

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 23, 2012 at 03:07 PM

The Associated Press has a new CEO. So how does the AP cover it? Not very well. AP hired McClatchy... More

The WSJ on the GOP’s $36 Million Man

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2012 at 06:10 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story today on a billionaire you've probably never heard of who's become... More

Why Twitter Will Get More Annoying

By Felix Salmon   Mar 22, 2012 at 09:22 AM

Happy sixth birthday, Twitter! You’re the service which started off as a way for groups of friends to keep... More

Audit Notes: Skynet News, Gawker’s High-Low Strategy, Oil Speculators

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2012 at 03:13 AM

Evgeny Morozov has a must-read piece at Slate on the rise of journalism bots, which Forbes now employs to write... More

Gawker Misreads the WSJ on Vaccines and Immunity (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 22, 2012 at 02:42 AM

Gawker totally misreads a Wall Street Journal story on numbskulls who don't vaccinate their kids, writing that it means "Oregonian... More

Audit Notes: Newspaper of the Year, Leverage, Wemple vs. Wolff

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 21, 2012 at 12:34 AM

In 2011, The Guardian had one of the best years any paper has ever had. Its reporting on the systemic... More

The NYT Paywall Hums Along

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 20, 2012 at 03:34 PM

The New York Times's paywall continues to outperform expectations at its first birthday. The paper says it now has 454,000... More

When Journalists Take Money From Wall Street

By Felix Salmon   Mar 20, 2012 at 02:12 PM

Many thanks to Paul Starobin for getting to the bottom of the question of journalists being paid by Wall Street... More

Audit Notes: Responsible Populism, Tom Frank on Elites, Shlaes and Inflation

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2012 at 11:52 PM

Simon Johnson writes about what he calls "responsible populism," not populism as it is so often portrayed in the press... More