The Audit

Audit Notes: TP Bubble, No More “Fat Cats,” Big Long Now

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 16, 2012 at 12:52 AM

The Wall Street Journal takes a look at one growing American industry the Internet and the Chinese can't wipe out:... More

For The Sun, Karma Is No Fun

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 15, 2012 at 04:35 PM

Rupert Murdoch's Sun is in big trouble. Reuters reports today that Scotland Yard is investigating "serious suspected criminality over a... More

Audit Notes: Government Spending, News Corp., The Machines Rise

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 14, 2012 at 11:58 PM

The New Yorker's George Packer deftly riffs off both Charles Murray's new book on turmoil in the white lower and... More

Cops in the Newsroom

The News Corp. fiasco imperils press protections in the UK

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 14, 2012 at 05:33 PM

I noted this yesterday about News Corporation's Management Standards Committee, set up over the summer to handle the company’s internal... More

A National Paywall That Works

Lessons from Slovakia

By William F. Baker   Feb 14, 2012 at 01:44 PM

While nobody was looking, a small company in Slovakia may have shed some light on one of the biggest challenges... More

Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal, Chipotle Not Apple

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 13, 2012 at 08:01 PM

Murdoch's hacking scandal deepened this weekend with the arrests of several senior journalists at another News Corporation paper—The Sun— in... More

Quality vs. Quantity Online

By Felix Salmon   Feb 13, 2012 at 09:15 AM

At about the same time that Michael Kinsley’s hilarious response to a blog post of mine hit the web,... More

Pogue Misses on Cheap Gadgets and Foreign Labor

The cost difference between China and the U.S. is less than he imagines

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 10, 2012 at 04:16 PM

David Pogue of The New York Times looks at the "Dilemma of Cheap Electronics" raised by the paper's recent, outstanding... More

Audit Notes: Energy Economy, Insider Trading, Mortgage Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2012 at 11:55 PM

Here's a good Wall Street Journal page-one story on how the energy boom is driving economic activity across the U.S.... More

BusinessWeek Goes Inside a Critical Hacking Scandal Meeting

Murdoch, at a fork in the road, chose the coverup

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2012 at 02:20 PM

Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a fantastic story reporting on a critical meeting Rupert Murdoch held last May to plot how to... More

Audit Notes: Off the Hamster Wheel, The Dumb Money, iPad Newspapers

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2012 at 01:53 AM

I like this Nieman Journalism Lab piece on how Salon hopped off the hamster wheel and saw site traffic increase... More

Mostly Skimpy Coverage of JPMorgan’s Overdraft Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 8, 2012 at 10:16 AM

Press favorite Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase is paying $110 million to settle a class-action suit against it for gouging its... More

Audit Notes: Payment Protection, Greek Austerity, Inflation Bugaboo

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 8, 2012 at 01:49 AM

American Banker's Victoria Finkle and Jeff Horwitz report on the credit card industry's payment-protection racket and note that the Consumer... More

NYT: Criminal Charges in the Foreclosure Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 7, 2012 at 02:02 AM

Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times reports this morning on new criminal charges against robosigning company DocX and its... More

Audit Notes: Regressive Taxes, Another Task Force, Keller on Copyright

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 7, 2012 at 12:38 AM

Kevin Drum looks at how regressive taxes are at the state and local level, an issue that doesn't get nearly... More