The Audit

AT&T’s Hubris

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2011 at 02:48 PM

The Justice Department is suing to stop AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, which would have consolidated three-quarters of cellphone-plan market... More

Audit Notes: Boyd on Blackboard, Capitalism Lite, BofA Woes

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 30, 2011 at 07:53 PM

There aren't a whole lot of investigative journalists out there covering penny stocks and other small-cap companies. Roddy Boyd does,... More

WSJ Shoe Leather and Privacy Series Pays Off In Libya

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 30, 2011 at 01:16 PM

The Wall Street Journal gets a big scoop today on the ground in Libya, reporting that Western companies helped Qaddafi... More

Audit Notes: Stocks Fed, Stadium Economics, Dumb-Question Headlines

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 29, 2011 at 06:07 PM

Gretchen Morgenson had an interesting quote in her column yesterday riffing off Bloomberg's investigation into $1.2 trillion of Fed bailouts:... More

Audit Notes: Murdoch and American Politicians, UAW, Labor’s Bulletin Board Win

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2011 at 07:37 PM

Does Rupert Murdoch interfere with his news outlets? Does a bear, well, you know... The Los Angeles Times has an... More

A Good WSJ Scoop on AIG and Wall Street Research

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 26, 2011 at 06:51 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting scoop out today, reporting that AIG CEO Robert Benmosche is leaning on his... More

More On Why I’m Talking About Tim Cook’s Sexuality

By Felix Salmon   Aug 26, 2011 at 02:50 PM

Every so often I put a blog post up, start getting feedback on it, and realize I’ve got things horribly... More

Why Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Sexuality Is News

By Felix Salmon   Aug 26, 2011 at 02:29 PM

Tim Cook is now the most powerful gay man in the world. This is newsworthy, no? But you won’t find... More

Audit Notes: A Triple-B Chairman for a Triple-B Company, Stadium Welfare, Euro Crisis

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 25, 2011 at 08:04 PM

New York Daily News publisher and Boston Properties Chairman Mort Zuckerman takes to the op-ed pages of The Wall Street... More

Fortune Inside the Pfizer Fiasco

A deeply reported piece on a management crisis at the giant drug company

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 25, 2011 at 04:40 PM

Fortune has a dandy read in this issue on an executive fiasco at Pfizer that led to the sacking of... More

Audit Notes: Steve Jobs, WSJ on Hacking, NYPD As Domestic CIA

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 24, 2011 at 07:02 PM

Awful news just hit the tape that Steve Jobs's health has finally forced him to resign as CEO of Apple:... More

Capital One Tries to Buy Too Big to Fail Status

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 24, 2011 at 03:29 PM

Capital One is the thirteenth biggest bank in the country, with $200 billion in assets. It's on a buying spree... More

Money Talks

Why do we never hear from the working class on op-ed pages?

By Erika Fry   Aug 24, 2011 at 12:39 PM

Last week, eighty-year-old billionaire Warren Buffett whipped up a media frenzy when, in an op-ed for The New York Times... More

Steve Brill’s Blinkered View of Education

By Felix Salmon   Aug 24, 2011 at 12:25 PM

If you don’t have the time or inclination to read Steve Brill’s book on education reform, then his bombastic op-ed... More

Audit Notes: Students Drop For-Profit Colleges, Foreclosures, Hospital Mergers (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 23, 2011 at 08:39 PM

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting report on the much-deserved business woes hitting the for-profit college industry. Enrollment of... More