The Audit

An FCC Commissioner’s Brazen Dash Through the Revolving Door

Buried by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News

By Ryan Chittum   May 12, 2011 at 01:33 PM

The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News show some terrible news judgment today, burying news that FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell... More

Too Big To Fail, The Movie

By Felix Salmon   May 12, 2011 at 08:41 AM

Over the weekend I watched the HBO movie version of Too Big To Fail, and I talked to Andrew... More

Microsoft-Skype Gets Bubble-Era Hype from the Times (UPDATED)

The Journal and FT bring much-needed skepticism about the deal

By Ryan Chittum   May 11, 2011 at 08:22 PM

The New York Times goes A1 with a breathless second-day story that shows some of the perils of deal reporting.... More

L.A. Times Examines Trump’s Gold-Plated Corporate Welfare

By Ryan Chittum   May 11, 2011 at 02:49 PM

How do you handle covering a candidacy that's primarily a publicity stunt by a crazed ego and presshound—one with approximately... More

Audit Notes: “People Love It,” The New Nocera, NYT Parody Flop

By Ryan Chittum   May 10, 2011 at 09:05 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column on a panel of top financiers discussing financial reform and too big to... More

Race to the Bottom

A Times story illustrates a peril that is a virtue to some

By Ryan Chittum   May 10, 2011 at 04:08 PM

The New York Times gave this piece as big a play as you'll see a non-news story get yesterday, going... More

Diving Down into “The Story So Far”

And coming up with the parts you need to read

By Felix Salmon   May 10, 2011 at 12:02 AM

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, in its worthy manner, has come out with a 146-page report entitled "The... More

U.S. Oil Is Limited and Fungible, the HuffPost Reports

By Ryan Chittum   May 9, 2011 at 12:40 PM

The Huffington Post's Michael McAuliff has a good piece of reporting on the potential impact of a bill the House... More

Audit Notes: UBS Fraud, Stevie Cohen, Bankers 4 Liz Warren!

By Ryan Chittum   May 6, 2011 at 04:30 PM

So a giant Swiss bank defrauds American taxpayers. It bid-rigs the muni-bond derivatives market. It pays kickbacks and bribes. The... More

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