The Audit

Audit Notes: Paywall Protection, News Corp. Scandal Widens, Goldman and Libya

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 07:49 PM

Ken Doctor has a good post over at Nieman Journalism Lab on the Walter Hussman Theorem, which is that you... More

The Fed, Still Oracular in the Post-Greenspan Era

The business press’s various interpretations of a Bernanke speech

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 03:54 PM

Ben Bernanke gave a speech the other day, saying that... well... he said some thing or another, according to the... More

Walmart’s Unions

They do exist—outside the U.S.—as a Washington Post story shows

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM

It's well known that Walmart is viciously anti-union. It's not much known is that the company is much more accomodative... More

Audit Notes: Poor Wall Street, Our Lost Decade, Parallel Universe

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2011 at 07:46 PM

Reading this Wall Street Journal story, you'd think that Wall Street had fallen on hard times: Morgan Stanley offered a... More

WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity

A profile reports the Treasury secretary steered Obama away from jobs focus

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2011 at 02:39 PM

You can sense a surge in criticism of the Obama administration coming, both from within and from former members of... More

Audit Notes: News Corp. Coverup Continues, Guinness Record for Sellouts, AOL/HuffPo

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 7, 2011 at 07:58 PM

The New York Times reports on the latest from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation phone hacking scandal and coverup. The news... More

Delaying the Dodd-Frank Rules

An NYT story shows the WSJ parroting bogus Wall Street spin

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 7, 2011 at 01:33 PM

Planet Money's Jacob Goldstein makes a great catch this morning, noting that The Wall Street Journal and New York Times... More

Audit Notes: Sun-Times Daley Probe, CanadaCare Myths, Off the News

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 7, 2011 at 12:41 AM

The Chicago Sun-Times has a dandy investigation today reporting that the son of former Mayor Richard Daley made skads of... More

Goldman’s WSJ Score

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 6, 2011 at 02:49 PM

Goldman Sachs displays some savvy PR in getting The Wall Street Journal to go big with a story about it... More

Making Sense of Sino-Forest

Ponzi allegations call for an independent arbiter, but the press comes up short

By Felix Salmon   Jun 6, 2011 at 02:27 PM

If you want to move a stock with a research report, you can hardly hope to do better than Muddy... More

Audit Notes: Lehman, Off the Hook; Foreclosure Scandal; Bloomberg Snooze

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2011 at 05:23 PM

Bloomberg News scoops that the fearsome SEC is going to let top executives from Lehman Brothers off the hook without... More

A Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2011 at 01:06 PM

The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its... More

Four Ws From the WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 2, 2011 at 06:41 PM

The Wall Street Journal messes up a story atop its Marketplace section today that reports that a judge ordered American... More

CPI Shows Some Credit Unions Gouging Customers, Payday Lender-Style

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 2, 2011 at 01:17 PM

The Center for Public Integrity's Ben Hallman has an excellent investigation at iWatch News exposing how some credit unions are... More

Audit Notes: Ellison’s Battle of the Bay View, Biovail Blues, Liz Warren’s “Cult”

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 1, 2011 at 08:25 PM

What does the fifth richest man in the world do when the neighbors' trees spoil the view of San Francisco... More