The Audit

Audit D.C. Notes: Football Facts, Jobs Jam, Gauging Fairness

By Holly Yeager   Sep 9, 2010 at 06:05 PM

Just in time for the start of the NFL season, the Center for American Progress Action Fund is out with... More

Bloomberg Scoop: Rubin and Prince Knew

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 9, 2010 at 01:53 PM

Bloomberg gets a nice scoop that Robert Rubin and Chuck Prince knew about Citigroup's subprime losses while the company's CFO... More

The News Corp. Coverup

Memory-impaired execs, payments to key figures, and Keystone Kops

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 8, 2010 at 04:00 PM

News Corp.'s behavior in the UK hacking scandal has all the hallmarks of a coverup. We've got the scapegoat (Clive... More

Boy, Look Who National Journal’s Been Hiring

So far only 20% of high-profile hires are women; not good

By Holly Yeager   Sep 8, 2010 at 01:58 PM

The National Journal Group has been generating a lot of buzz lately with big-name hires like Major Garrett, Matt Cooper,... More

A Different Angle on Sports Subsidies

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 8, 2010 at 11:20 AM

The New York Times fronts an excellent story this morning that ought to put another nail in the coffin of... More

Audit Notes: News Corp. Scandal, HSBC Hire, Dodd-Frank Repo

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 7, 2010 at 08:18 PM

The News of the World scandal, back in the spotlight thanks to The New York Times Magazine, continues to grow.... More

NYT Pushes BP’s PR Line on Its Ability to Pay

The massively profitable company’s poverty claim hits A1 of the Times—unchecked

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 7, 2010 at 06:23 PM

I defended The New York Times this morning. Let me lay into it a little bit this afternoon. On Friday,... More

Michael Wolff’s High Cynicism

An atrocious column about The New York Times’s News Corp. hacking scandal investigation.

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 7, 2010 at 12:37 PM

The Times drops this amazing story last week digging into how a Rupert Murdoch tabloid illegally hacked telephones, including those... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Revisiting Bai on Blumenauer, Cato Purge, Labor Day Lesson

By Holly Yeager   Sep 3, 2010 at 05:14 PM

Last week I grumbled about a New York Times portrait of Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) written by Matt Bai. There... More

A Fortune Look at Arizona’s Private Prisons

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM

A tip of the hat to this Fortune story from a couple of weeks back highlighting the prison-industrial complex in... More

Murdoch Could Learn a Thing or Two from WSJ.com

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM

Chris Roush has a brief interview posted with Alan Murray, who heads up The Wall Street Journal's digital operations, including... More

Audit Notes: The Swells at CNBC, Quote Stuffing, Austerity for Thee

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 2, 2010 at 08:32 PM

Barry Ritholtz lays into CNBC this morning for one of those decidedly numbskulled views of the world so many of... More

Barron’s Investigates the Shady Reverse-Merger Business

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 2, 2010 at 04:23 PM

A hearty Audit huzzah to Barron's and reporters Bill Alpert and Leslie P. Norton for a superb investigation into Chinese... More

Covering the Self-Serving Fuld Testimony

Several misses and one hit

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 2, 2010 at 12:43 PM

The coverage of Dick Fuld's appearance before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission is somewhat uneven this morning. The Wall Street... More

Audit Notes: Direct Democracy, Obama’s Caution as Achilles Heel, Japan

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2010 at 06:05 PM

Up here in Seattle, The Stranger is doing a good job keeping an eye on how industry is flooding the... More