The Audit

The Times Retargets the Zappos Ads Story

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM

The New York Times steps onto the online privacy beat this morning (the one put on the front burner recently... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Maddow on Katrina, WaPo on Mystery Dems, What Dodd Didn’t Ask

By Holly Yeager   Aug 27, 2010 at 03:45 PM

It’s good to see all the coverage of New Orleans five years after Katrina. But Rachel Maddow’s show Thursday night... More

ProPublica and Planet Money Find the Keys to the Kingdom

By Dean Starkman   Aug 27, 2010 at 12:21 PM

Mark Pittman: Where is this demand coming from? How can you guys sell this issue in thirty minutes? Who the... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Drives BP Story, NYT is better on Wal-Mart, Insurance, Alabama, Da Bears

By Dean Starkman   Aug 26, 2010 at 07:00 PM

—The WSJ continues its strong BP coverage, a story on which it has simply excelled. Today my old paper examines... More

NYT Blurs the Debt Debate

How lonely is the bow-tied Blumenauer?

By Holly Yeager   Aug 26, 2010 at 03:46 PM

The New York Times poses an interesting question today: “Is there a strong liberal argument to be made for attacking... More

Fortune With a Stellar Probe into J&J

By Dean Starkman   Aug 26, 2010 at 10:47 AM

Now playing in Fortune, a honey of a probe into pharma icon Johnson & Johnson. Written by Mina Kimes, it... More

Audit Notes: WSJ on FASB; More on Auditors; the Demand Side, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 25, 2010 at 06:45 PM

—I'd like to know more about the rushed retirement of the chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which The... More

Bloggers at the Treasury

By Dean Starkman   Aug 25, 2010 at 02:32 PM

Last week, small groups of bloggers were ushered into the Treasury Department for quasi-off-the-record meetings with Tim Geithner and other... More

Audit Notes: Pittman Suit Advances, FT’s nifty banking graphic, Shareholder Activists Gain, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 24, 2010 at 06:30 PM

—The full federal appeals court in New York refused to reconsider a lower court ruling ordering the Fed's board of... More

Tug of War at the Fed

Journal pulls back the curtain

By Holly Yeager   Aug 24, 2010 at 12:52 PM

The Wall Street Journal does good work today with a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the August 10 meeting of the... More

In an SEC Filing Against Countrywide, a Press Win

By Dean Starkman   Aug 24, 2010 at 10:17 AM

The Wall Street Journal this morning reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission has now explicitly alleged what that newspaper... More

Audit D.C. Notes: The End of the Affair, Stimulus Situation, Cantor on the Trail

By Holly Yeager   Aug 23, 2010 at 05:06 PM

The August lull is giving The New York Times a chance to point out just how much our economic lives... More

Audit Notes: High Priests, Feed the Meter, Correlation and Causation, Etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 03:10 PM

—Chrystia Freeland ruminates on business journalism's image problem in the Times Book Review, and argues against the good-guys-vs.-bad-guys construction of... More

Mortgage Fraud Still Tiny

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM

No matter what The Wall Street Journal says. Not to make too much of this. It's the summer doldrums, after... More

A Local Look at Small Business and Hard Money

Over the transom from the Audit/SABEW local business-press initiative

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 09:50 AM

As some Audit readers know, we’ve started a push with the Society of American Business Editors and Writers to try... More