The Audit

Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal

Two stories cover the political, police, and press angles on the News Corp. coverup

By Ryan Chittum   May 6, 2011 at 09:49 AM

If you haven't followed the growing scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, it's worth sitting down with Sarah Ellison's piece... More

Audit Notes: CEO Porn; Ryan Avent on Paul Ryan; Sbarro, Cooked

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2011 at 09:08 PM

Gary Weiss says the tarnishing of Warren Buffett is a useful moment for the press to stand back and quit... More

Old-School Journal Leder Spotted in the Wild

The paper finds greenwashing in the jungle by Estée Lauder

By Ryan Chittum   May 5, 2011 at 02:19 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a superb page-one story today about greenwashing—the reality behind an American company's marketing of an... More

Audit Notes: Globalization and Corporate Crime, Capital Gains, Auto Correct

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2011 at 07:23 PM

— Columbia's Jeffrey Sachs is riled up these days. He has an interesting piece on how and why corporate crime... More

The Regulators on the Bus

A Times story shows the resources gap between regulators and Wall Street

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM

We've wondered often just what it is that makes our financial regulators so toothless in the wake of the widespread... More

Audit Notes: Levin-Coburn Referrals; Falling Dollar, Rising Exports; Amazon Watch

By Ryan Chittum   May 3, 2011 at 08:12 PM

Bloomberg reports that Senators Carl Levin and Tom Coburn have formally referred their bipartisan investigation of the financial crisis, and... More

Lucky Duckies Waddle Onto the WSJ News Pages

The poor and lower middle class pay federal taxes, too

By Ryan Chittum   May 3, 2011 at 02:53 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a poor story today reporting that "High-Earning Households Pay Growing Share of Taxes." The paper's... More

Too Big to Fail: New Jersey Mall Edition

Chris Christie can’t let Xanadu go under; $400 million in corporate welfare

By Ryan Chittum   May 2, 2011 at 07:50 PM

What corporate interest won't Chris Christie subsidize with taxpayer dollars? The New Jersey governor, press favorite, and conservative hero is... More

WSJ Notes That Commodities Go Down, Too

By Ryan Chittum   May 2, 2011 at 12:11 PM

The business press is much more sensitive to signs of price increases than it is to signs of price decreases.... More

Audit Notes: Those Pricey Reporters, Business Press Critique, Wolff’s Idealism, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Apr 29, 2011 at 02:51 PM

--What's a story cost? Ken Doctor asks Clark Gilbert, CEO of the Deseret News's parent, who gives this breakdown:... More

What Washington Does All Day

HuffPo with a terrific story on the obscure interchange battle and its meaning

By Dean Starkman   Apr 29, 2011 at 11:55 AM

David Brooks says correctly that not enough Washington reporters break away from the pack and report on how the... More

When No One Cared About Moody’s and S&P’s Opinions

They operated on a journalism model, and no one listened

By Dean Starkman   Apr 28, 2011 at 02:24 PM

Does it rankle you that when S&P or Moody's issues a credit warning on, say, Japanese debt, not to mention... More

“The News Was That It Happened”

Bernanke presser was good and right

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 05:40 PM

I wish that was an original thought, but Randall Forsyth of Barron's made the apt observation on the post-game... More

Ask Bernanke About This, Too

Depression-era levels of black unemployment in some cities, well-documented in HuffPo

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM

This morning's strong Huffington Post piece on black-unemployment is a useful clip to print out and carry to the... More

Whither Twitter?

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 08:44 AM

What does it mean if Mark Zuckerberg doesn't obsess about you anymore? Fortune's story from last week on Twitter's... More