The Audit

WSJ Fronts Amazon’s Tax Avoidance Strategy

Color-coded maps tell employees which states are safe, bad, and neutral

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 3, 2011 at 06:38 PM

It's nice to see The Wall Street Journal take a page-one look at Amazon's aggressive tax avoidance, something I've written... More

The Wall Street Journal: Murdochification Watch

The paper runs a thinly sourced, and quickly denied, scoop on non-News Corp. bribes

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 2, 2011 at 10:06 PM

Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, unsurprisingly, hasn't done a whole lot of digging on the News Corp. hacking scandal. Or... More

Despite Debt Ceiling Deal, Wishy-Washy Stock Market Stories

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 2, 2011 at 03:14 PM

The House approved the debt-ceiling/spending cuts deal after markets closed yesterday, and the Senate passed it today. The Dow is... More

Audit Notes: The Murdoch Lobby at Work, Davies in America, Audit Radio

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 2, 2011 at 12:42 AM

Roger Cohen, author of one of the worst Murdoch apologies of the hacking scandal, heads to David Cameron and Rebekah... More

Follow a 99er Through the Press As the Money Runs Out

The long jobs crisis, with no end in sight, should prompt us to revisit older stories

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 1, 2011 at 01:32 PM

Now that it's certain that our leaders have gone all in on austerity, despite a 9.2 percent unemployment rate and... More

Audit Notes: What News Corp. Knew, Mulcaire Talks, FT Paywall Success

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 29, 2011 at 07:40 PM

The New York Times has a big scoop tonight on the Murdoch hacking scandal, reporting that News International and its... More

Debt-Ceiling Jitters Hit the Markets

European crisis and other bad news doesn’t help

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 29, 2011 at 03:36 PM

I'm beginning to get that spring/summer 2008 feeling again, and it's no wonder. The latest GDP report this morning signals... More

Audit Notes: Another Davies Hacking Scoop, Greece, The Debt Ceiling

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 28, 2011 at 07:25 PM

Nick Davies lands another big scoop on the Murdoch hacking scandal, reporting that police investigators believe the News of the... More

ProPublica Catches Ally Financial Making It Up

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 27, 2011 at 08:33 PM

ProPublica has a terrific report today nailing Ally Financial (the former GMAC) for faking mortgage documents in order to foreclose... More

Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp.

Its abysmal corporate governance is symptomatic of a deeper disregard for the rules

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM

Rupert Murdoch's board of directors was in the spotlight a bit yesterday, with stories in The Daily Beast and The... More

Audit Notes: The Debt Ceiling Blame, Murdoch’s Meddling, Thou Shalt Not Autoplay Videos

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 26, 2011 at 06:45 PM

Frustrated with the debt-ceiling coverage, which is far too even-handed, I wrote this last night on Twitter: it's very simple:... More

The New York Times Paywall Is Working

By Felix Salmon   Jul 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM

Back in April, I was very skeptical that The New York Times would achieve its leaked goal of getting 300,000... More

No, Actually, News of the World Won’t Happen Here

By Dean Starkman   Jul 25, 2011 at 11:11 AM

In a recent spasm of radio and TV interviews about #hackgate the last couple weeks, everyone wanted to know whether... More

The NYT Paywall Is Out of the Gate Fast

281,000 paying digital subscribers in three months show readers will pay for quality news

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2011 at 08:14 PM

The Wall Street Journal has long had a successful online paywall. The Financial Times has one, too. We can confidently... More

CNN, Piers Morgan, and the Hacking Scandal

Questions raised about primetime anchor’s tenure as a tabloid editor

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2011 at 02:00 AM

It would be rather ironic if Fox News enemy CNN turns out to have a hacking-scandal-by-association problem on its hands,... More