The Audit

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Headlines, Bad Ad News, Wall Street Protests

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 21, 2011 at 06:53 PM

The Audit has a love-hate reading relationship with Bloomberg News's wacky headlines. Here are a few we've flagged over the... More

The SEC’s Madoff Mess Gets Worse

The commission’s former top lawyer faces a possible criminal conflict of interest investigation

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 20, 2011 at 07:33 PM

Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson report that the SEC's inspector general is referring the David M. Becker case to the... More

Some Context With Your David Brooks

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 20, 2011 at 02:46 PM

Obama's pitch to make the ultrarich pay as high a tax rate as their secretaries sent David Brooks into spasms... More

Audit Notes: Economic Headwinds, Refinancing, Google’s Dominance

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 19, 2011 at 07:25 PM

Crain's New York Business's Aaron Elstein takes a good look anecdotes at the headwinds New York's economy is facing from... More

The AP Puts Faces on the Poverty Numbers

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 19, 2011 at 02:59 PM

The Associated Press fans out across the country to put faces on the poverty numbers released last week. Needless to... More

Audit Notes: Scotland Yard Thugs, Reuters Raises Its Sights, An NYT Miss

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2011 at 04:18 PM

It looks like they ought to just shut Scotland Yard down and start over from scratch. The Metropolitan Police is... More

Reporting on Solyndra

Missing basic concepts about the government’s loan-guarantee program.

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2011 at 03:24 PM

Much of the press coverage of the Solyndra bankruptcy has been poor on some basic concepts at the heart of... More

Ron Suskind on Obama’s Weakness

A new book reports Geithner ignored the president on overhauling Citigroup

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2011 at 12:53 AM

It's been apparent for a good while that Obama is a weak president. But so weak that his own people... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg’s Euphemisms, ETFs and CDOs, TechCrunch and Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2011 at 07:36 PM

It's sort of darkly amusing to read all the euphemisms in this Bloomberg News story reporting on the latest warnings... More

Framing the Jobs Plan… Er, Second Stimulus

This time Democrats get that language matters, and the press plays along

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2011 at 12:39 AM

Barack Obama proposed his second stimulus last week, pitching a $450 billion measure. Or is it a jobs plan? Let's... More

Bloomberg Versus Reuters on Obama Polls

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 14, 2011 at 05:15 PM

Correlation is not causation. That's a hard lesson to internalize for the press, which insists on slapping a narrative on... More

Adventures With E-books, Kindle Single Edition

By Felix Salmon   Sep 14, 2011 at 10:28 AM

Ryan Avent’s 90-page Kindle single, The Gated City, is a bargain at $1.99. It was produced in close consultation with... More

Audit Notes: College Sports, NY AG Probing Lehman Execs, Shale Drilling

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 13, 2011 at 07:46 PM

— Taylor Branch's cover story in the new Atlantic is a devastating indictment of the NCAA, a must-read for anyone... More

Wealth Over Work

The Washington Post excels; Indiviglio misses the point

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 13, 2011 at 09:32 AM

Press friends, if there's one thing that shows how our system is set up to favor capital over labor, wealth... More

Best Business Writing, 2012: Send Us Your Favorites

By Dean Starkman   Sep 12, 2011 at 04:41 PM

Hey, Internet: A team at the Columbia Journalism Review—yours truly, Dean Starkman, Ryan Chittum, Martha Hamilton, ex-of the WaPo and... More