The Audit

Why Making More Money Is Groovy, And Makes You Richer

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 19, 2012 at 07:55 PM

You might think this is an Onion-style parody of a column by a right-wing think tanker: But it's no joke.... More

Money Talks

If you cover Wall Street, should you take Wall Street speaking fees?

By Paul Starobin   Mar 19, 2012 at 06:00 AM

illian Tett, the US managing editor of the London-based Financial Times, is “sharp” and “glamorous,” according to a 2010... More

Audit Notes: Greg Smith, Mike Daisey, David Carr

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2012 at 08:35 PM

Quote of the day goes either to Bloomberg or The Epicurean Dealmaker. It's a tough one. Bloomberg finds Morgan Stanley... More

Audit Notes: 1966 Wages, Fracking’s Chickens and Eggs, Whistleblowers

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2012 at 02:35 AM

David Cay Johnston looks at the latest income-distribution data from Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, and notes that in this... More

The NAA Newspaper Numbers

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2012 at 02:16 AM

Alan Mutter looks at the 2011 numbers out of the Newspaper Association of America, which he notes were "quietly published."... More

Mad Libs, New York Times Executive Pay Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2012 at 06:45 PM

The New York Times likes to inveigh against executive compensation practices on its editorial pages, and its newsroom has done... More

The Worst Personal-Finance Video Ever

By Felix Salmon   Mar 15, 2012 at 01:45 AM

Like many people, I’m fascinated by lottery tickets. In many ways they’re the purest speculative investment in the world: a... More

Audit TV: Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 14, 2012 at 07:58 PM

Audit Boss Dean Starkman's cover story in the last issue of CJR argued that business journalism had narrowed its gaze... More

Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 14, 2012 at 02:06 PM

It's tempting to get all savvy and snarky about Greg Smith's op-ed in The New York Times this morning on... More

Audit Notes: Fast Food Nation at 10, U.S. Inequality, Marilyn Hagerty

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 14, 2012 at 12:40 AM

Eric Schlosser revisits his muckraking epic Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal for The Daily Beast,... More

American Banker Delves into Debt-Collecting Woes at Chase

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 13, 2012 at 03:26 PM

It looks more and more like the foreclosure scandal is a symptom of a larger problem. American Banker's Jeff Horwitz... More

Audit Notes: Charles Murray’s Lunch, Morgenson on Fairfax, Knight-Ridder’s iPad

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 12, 2012 at 07:59 PM

The Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders writes this on Twitter: What Charles Murray had for lunch while telling the FT... More

A Dim-Bulb Story From the Washington Post

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2012 at 07:58 PM

New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman's office this afternoon sent out a press release hammering the Washington Post's page-one story on... More

200 Years of Citi

An alternate history

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2012 at 02:42 PM

Bloomberg's Christine Harper, on Twitter, notes that Citigroup's corporate timeline, launched in a must-have new iPad app called Citi News,... More

Audit Notes: Tabloid Chutzpah, Paywall Performance, The Fed and Dividends

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 8, 2012 at 08:44 PM

Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloids, which were rogue even by the viciously sensationalist standards of that... More