The Audit

Weak Coverage of SEC Settlement With Wall Street’s Self-Regulator

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 28, 2011 at 12:25 PM

This morning's coverage of the SEC's settlement with Wall Street self-regulator FINRA is frustrating. We're told that FINRA, which was... More

Audit Notes: Debt Collector Scams, Occupy Oakland Coverage, Jest

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2011 at 07:47 PM

The Washington Post reports on two FTC complaints against California debt collector companies, which "highlight an increase in complaints about... More

Cataloging the Banks’ Crimes and Misdeeds

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 27, 2011 at 06:28 PM

This excellent Daily Beast piece by Gary Rivlin catalogs the major crimes of the four biggest U.S. banks plus Goldman... More

Audit Notes: More on Inequality, Les Hinton’s Memory

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2011 at 06:36 PM

The inequality I talked about earlier today has been caused on a couple of levels. While the market income of... More

The Myth of Income Equality, Courtesy of AEI

New CBO data show what (almost) everybody already knows

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2011 at 05:31 PM

This post by James Pethokoukis, who recently hopped over to AEI from Reuters, shows how to combine the worst tendencies... More

Austerity and Objectivity

Why are spending cuts contractionary overseas but not here?

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 25, 2011 at 02:31 PM

The top story in The Wall Street Journal today is interesting for what it says about how American papers are... More

Audit Notes: Copying the NYT Paywall, WaMu, The 0.1 Percent

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 24, 2011 at 06:16 PM

Jeff Bercovici of Forbes responds to my post calling on papers to follow the NYT's lead on charging for news... More

Newspaper Companies As Emblems of the 1 Percent

David Carr rips Gannett’s $37 million golden parachute

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 24, 2011 at 04:32 PM

"Gannett paper" has long been a pejorative in journalism circles. So how about "Gannett executive"? The nation's biggest newspaper chain... More

ProPublica Has Questions for the SEC on Its Citi Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 21, 2011 at 01:30 PM

I really like how ProPublica covers the SEC's $285 million settlement with Citigroup this week. The commission nicked Citi for... More

Audit Notes: Paying for Newspapers Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 10:26 PM

I may have spoken too soon when I said to expect The New York Times's paid subscription growth rate to... More

NYT Paywall to Other Papers: “Copy Me!”

There’s no excuse for other publishers not to follow the Times’s model

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 02:53 PM

If The New York Times spun off its digital edition, it would be the tenth biggest paper in the country... More

Occupy Wall Street, Democrats, and Campaign Finance

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 12:28 AM

This Politico story on Occupy Wall Street's influence on the Democrats' campaign donors is awfully interesting: After the Democratic Congressional... More

Bloomberg Eyes Bank of America’s Derivatives Move

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 19, 2011 at 12:46 PM

Bloomberg News reports that Bank of America (with Federal Reserve approval) put Merrill Lynch credit-default swaps into BofA's deposit-holding arm... More

Link-Phobia and Plagiarism

By Felix Salmon   Oct 18, 2011 at 10:34 AM

Jack Shafer has an unforgiving take on l’affaire Kendra Marr: The plagiarist defrauds readers by leading them to believe that... More

Homeless Shelters 4 AT&T-Verizon Duopoly

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 17, 2011 at 03:17 PM

In June, Politico and the Washington Post ran stories showing how, in exchange for Ma Bell's cash, nonprofits like NAACP... More