The Audit

Audit Notes: Citi Fees, A Bipartisan Bloomberg Dream, The Toil Index

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2012 at 08:16 PM

Felix Salmon reports on an awful new fee Citigroup has cooked up to milk its customers. The bank will charge... More

The WSJ Eyes Analyst-Shopping

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2012 at 03:17 PM

Call me naive, but I didn't know that companies launching IPOs were still overtly shopping around for banks with favorable... More

Best of 2011: Ryan Chittum

The Audit’s deputy editor picks his top CJR stories from the past year

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 30, 2011 at 01:36 AM

Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp. On the pressing question of how much Rupert Murdoch is a... More

Best of 2011: Dean Starkman

The Audit’s head honcho picks his top CJR stories from the past year

By Dean Starkman   Dec 27, 2011 at 01:33 PM

Confidence Game: The limited vision of the news gurus: The landmark 8,000-word essay that upended the future-of-news debate. The Hole... More

Audit Notes: Newsstand Success, Paywalls and Tacos, WSJ on Debt Collectors

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 23, 2011 at 05:05 PM

How much has Apple's Newsstand increased sales of magazine apps. It's hard to say, but Peter Kafka posts a chart... More

The Guardian’s Big Hacking-Scandal Error

Failing to attribute its deleted-messages assertion left it open to attack

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 23, 2011 at 01:14 PM

When The Guardian dropped its Milly Dowler bombshell back in July, I called the News Corporation hacking it reported "abhorrent... More

Audit Notes: Rattner Gets a Pass, NYT’s Golden Parachute, No Rhodes Scholar

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2011 at 06:50 PM

New York Times reporter Geraldine Fabrikant writes a column for Reuters, oddly, on the pass former New York Times reporter,... More

The Journal on Congress’s Inside Dope for Investors

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 22, 2011 at 05:07 PM

The Wall Street Journal continues to investigate the fuzzy intersection between Congress and insider trading, with a good page-one story... More

Bloomberg Takes on the Big Lie of the Crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 21, 2011 at 03:16 PM

Bloomberg takes a crack at knocking down what Barry Ritholtz correctly calls the Big Lie of the crisis, that government... More

The Hole In FON Theory

Continuing the discussion about the future of news with Clay Shirky

By Dean Starkman   Dec 21, 2011 at 11:00 AM

I thank Clay Shirky and other posters for their responses to “Confidence Game: the limited vision of the news... More

Audit Notes: Nocera on Frannie, The Fed’s Politics, Confidence Game

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM

Joe Nocera writes that the SEC's case against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives is "extraordinarily weak," relying on the... More

On the Record From Inside a Gilded Bubble

Bloomberg News profiles the beleaguered ultrarich

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2011 at 04:29 PM

Bloomberg's Max Abelson has quite an eye for the ridiculous. He's dug up an AIG executive's blame-shifting for the financial... More

Audit Notes: Inflation Inflation, FT on Frannie, Deep Downturns

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 19, 2011 at 11:43 PM

Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong catch Niall Ferguson in a whopper on inflation. Ferguson: And the reason the CPI is... More

Baby Doomers: The Trilogy

The Journal’s good look at a generation’s bleak retirement prospects

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 19, 2011 at 04:10 PM

Back in February, The Wall Street Journal's Jim Browning looked at how the Boomers are the first generation to retire... More

Audit Notes: Walmart Rewrite, AMR’s Strategic Default, Debtors’ Prison

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2011 at 06:20 PM

When The Huffington Post's Lila Pearl Shapiro wrote a critical story about Walmart's labor practices earlier this week, the company... More