The Audit

The Justice Department and the Price of Books

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 8, 2012 at 07:10 PM

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department is going after Apple and book publishers for colluding to fix... More

Bloomberg’s Missing Billionaire

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 7, 2012 at 06:46 PM

This is rich, and no pun is intended. I criticized Bloomberg News yesterday for its policy of not covering its... More

The Baby Boom Wasn’t That Big, WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 7, 2012 at 04:01 PM

Boomers will be flooding the senior centers over the next few years and decades and that wave will be a... More

Audit Notes: Fox on Energy, Journalists and Programmers, Bloomberg

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 7, 2012 at 01:29 AM

Media Matters has an amusing compilation of Fox News reactions to $4 a gallon gasoline in 2008, when George W.... More

Bloomberg, Uncovered

A news organization that won’t report on itself

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 6, 2012 at 06:23 PM

Gothamist flags this gem down deep in a Bloomberg News story on its new Billionaire's Index: Bloomberg News editorial policy... More

Infographic: What’s a CEO Worth?

What Janet Robinson’s golden parachute could buy

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 6, 2012 at 06:00 AM

Infographic by Nigel Holmes Click here to see a larger version of this image. The tenures of two recently... More

Audit Notes: Rocket Internet, Gas Taxes, The Price of Health Care

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM

Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a good story on a German company that makes its living ripping off American websites and taking... More

WSJ on the Return of the Online Pet Food Store

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 5, 2012 at 05:41 PM

I like this smart Wall Street Journal piece on the new economics of the Web as told through the effort... More

Checkbook Journalism’s Slippery Slope

Murdoch’s scandals show why paying for news is a bad idea

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2012 at 10:47 AM

Combine the culture of checkbook journalism with the culture of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and you get one of the... More

Audit Notes: William Cohan, Three Little Pigs, Recovery Spring

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2012 at 01:14 AM

In Bloomberg BusinessWeek, William D. Cohan writes about the spectacular downfall of hedge fund manager Dan Zwirn, whose $12 billion... More

That Stuck Feeling

The Huffington Post launches an ambitious new series on the poor and middle class

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2012 at 03:14 PM

We all had a chuckle yesterday at the poor hedge fund marketing director whining about the difficulties of living in... More

Audit Notes: Paywalls Paying Off, Digital Privacy, Murdoch

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 29, 2012 at 07:54 PM

As Warren Buffett knows, when you give away your product online, it undermines the one you charge good money for... More

Bloomberg’s Abelson on How Wall Street Is Coping

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 29, 2012 at 01:53 PM

Bloomberg's Max Abelson has the story of the day, another entry in his list of stories on out-of-touch Wall Streeters.... More

Audit Notes: $25,000 an Hour, Foreclosures, Corporate Taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 28, 2012 at 08:03 PM

The New York Times has done a lot of tough reporting over the years on outlandish executive compensation. It's time... More

Warren Buffett and Paywalls

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 28, 2012 at 05:53 PM

The newspaper paywall now has a champion in some guy in Nebraska named Warren Buffett. Buffett, who just forked over... More