The Audit

HuffPost Finds the Pain in Goldman’s For-Profit Education Firm

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 14, 2011 at 06:46 PM

It's not hard to imagine that letting boiler rooms push poor folks into taking out impossible-to-shed federal loans is a... More

Rupert Murdoch’s “Arse”

An ex-tabloid editor tells Parliament who kissed what

By Emily Bell   Oct 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM

Ever since the News of The World phone-hacking scandal gathered pace in July this year, members of the UK press... More

Audit Notes: Economic Policy Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2011 at 07:17 PM

Ezra Klein, in his long story (which you should read) on why and how Obama's economic policy failed (I should... More

WSJ Backs Up The Guardian on European Scandal

Its reporting disputes its parent company’s denials

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2011 at 11:10 AM

Last night, Dow Jones slammed The Guardian's report on wrongdoing at The Wall Street Journal Europe, calling it "replete with... More

Wall Street Journal Europe Sourcing Was Unusual

And the CEO of the firm involved is a former Journal executive

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2011 at 06:35 PM

We now know, thanks to reporting in the both The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal itself, that Andrew Langloff,... More

The Guardian Unearths a Wall Street Journal Scandal

The paper claims the scalp of a Journal publisher and points to deeper problems

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2011 at 06:19 PM

Read this Wall Street Journal story from this morning on the resignation of its European edition's publisher. What the Journal... More

Charts of the Day, WSJ Story-Length Edition

Point/Counterpoint: Salmon/Chittum

By Felix Salmon   Oct 11, 2011 at 06:09 PM

Ryan Chittum has taken a look at the length of the stories on the front page of the WSJ. Here’s... More

The China Bubble

WSJ, Reuters, and Bloomberg reports show why a reckoning is likely

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 11, 2011 at 01:30 PM

We've all heard about the crisis in Europe, how it's weighing on the economy, and how a collapse there could... More

The Shorter-Form Journal

The number of long stories has plunged under Murdoch

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 10, 2011 at 09:40 PM

Story length in journalism by itself doesn’t mean much. We read too many news stories that are just too damned... More

How The New Yorker Monetizes Old Content

By Felix Salmon   Oct 10, 2011 at 05:03 PM

I love the way that The New Yorker is using the iPad to construct a whole new revenue stream from... More

Audit Notes: Overdraft Ethics, CNN’s Wall Street Apologist, U.S. Gas Boom

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 7, 2011 at 08:06 PM

American Banker's Jeff Horwitz finds some emails that offer an interesting look into how banks make unethical decisions to gouge... More

A Weak Case for the Middle Class Embracing Globalization

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 7, 2011 at 02:47 PM

Reuters’s David Rohde writes about Bowling Green, Kentucky, and how it’s doing well by embracing globalization. But it’s a pretty... More

Occupy Wall Street’s Media Team

A day in the life

By Alysia Santo   Oct 7, 2011 at 11:57 AM

Wednesday, October 5th Among the tarps, pizza boxes, and people tightly squeezed into Zuccotti Park, there are subtly segmented... More

Bailing Out the Bailed Out From TARP (Updated)

The WSJ on a Treasury “slush fund” for banks

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 6, 2011 at 02:28 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece of reporting today on a Treasury program ostensibly meant to boost small... More

Audit Notes: Steve Jobs

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 6, 2011 at 02:08 AM

Here's Wired's striking homepage reporting the death of Steve Jobs: Scroll down and you get gray text with obituary comments... More