The Audit

Best of 2010: Felix Salmon

Highlights from CJR’s newest Peterson Fellow

By Dean Starkman   Dec 30, 2010 at 08:50 AM

Salvaging the FCIC: The primer offered by Republicans members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission is essentially 5,400 words... More

Prudential’s Death Benefits for Soldiers: Bloomberg Gets it (Mostly) Right

CJR’s Audit Arbiter finds no merit to many of an insurer’s beefs about the financial wire’s probe

By Martha M. Hamilton   Dec 29, 2010 at 12:15 PM

The complaint came from Bob DeFillippo, chief communication officer for Prudential Financial, Inc., who fired it off the day... More

Best of 2010: Dean Starkman

CJR’s Kingsford Capital Fellow picks his top stories of the year

By Dean Starkman   Dec 28, 2010 at 09:23 AM

The Hamster Wheel. Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere. The Hamster Wheel isn’t speed; it’s... More

Best of 2010: Ryan Chittum

Chittum picks his top stories from 2009 2010

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 24, 2010 at 01:20 PM

Business Journalism on Prozac: A look at an issue of Fortune finds the magazine painting a picture of the corporate... More

Weil: Accountability for Accountants

By Felix Salmon   Dec 23, 2010 at 10:57 AM

As Caleb Newquist notes, most financial reporters cover the accountancy industry "once in a lunar eclipse on the winter solstice."... More

Audit Notes: The Bloomberg Way, Conflicts in Congress, Apple and Wikileakspedia

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 21, 2010 at 06:45 PM

One of the knocks on Bloomberg News is that the place is a bit, well, cultish. This quote doesn't help... More

An Excellent WSJ Piece on Federal Regulators’ Inaction

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 21, 2010 at 10:52 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent follow to its scoop yesterday that New York is planning to sue Ernst... More

Audit Notes: Nocera on Wallison, The Corporate Court, Wall Street Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2010 at 05:21 PM

Joe Nocera weighed in Saturday on the ridiculous document released by the Republicans on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Here... More

The WSJ Gives a Madoff the Soft Touch

Access and a celebrity-journalism-style puff piece

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2010 at 02:24 PM

This looks for all the world like a publicist-driven story in The Wall Street Journal story on how Andrew Madoff... More

The Journal Digs Into Medtronic’s Payments to Surgeons

By Felix Salmon   Dec 20, 2010 at 11:52 AM

The WSJ puts a lot of time and effort into its leders—those long, exhaustively-reported front-page exclusives about topics which might... More

Audit Notes: Inequality in NYC, Reuters on Dumb Money, Ireland

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 17, 2010 at 06:05 PM

Yves Smith, in a "Banana Republic Watch," points to a report (PDF) from the Fiscal Policy Institute that finds inequality... More

Covering the Republicans’ Crisis Commission Document

Bethany McLean shows why he said-she said reporting doesn’t cut it

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 17, 2010 at 03:14 PM

The four Republicans on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released their own report Wednesday on the causes of the financial... More

Audit Notes: Deal Scoops; Gasparino on the Economy, Bloomberg Editorials

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2010 at 08:10 PM

Deal journalism isn't our bag here, but this New York Observer story is worth noting all the same. It's interesting... More

WSJ Parrots Governor Christie on Jobs

But missing context undermines the governor’s—and the paper’s—story

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2010 at 05:51 PM

The idea, I suppose, of The Wall Street Journal's Greater New York section was to bring a little Journal touch... More

When Regulators Shrink, Press Responsibilities Rise

Republicans signal intent to return to the status quo ante

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2010 at 10:09 AM

The quasi re-regulation of finance is less than two years old, but it's already facing the rollback from leadership in... More