The Audit
The Boston Globe, up for sale again
The Times goes all in on the Times
By Ryan Chittum Feb 20, 2013 at 05:35 PM
Back in 1993, The New York Times Company bought the Globe for about $1.8 billion (adjusted for inflation). Four years... More
The New York Times and the rehabilitation of Steven Rattner
A monthly column not enough, the fallen former NYTer now gets the Sorkin treatment
By Ryan Chittum Feb 20, 2013 at 03:00 PM
The New York Times is declaring that disgraced private equity mogul Steven Rattner has gotten his reputation back in the... More
Audit Notes: scoops and leaks, CNBC hardball, FT on Dow Jones CEO
The WSJ sniffs at a USA Today exclusive on Obama’s immigration plan
By Ryan Chittum Feb 20, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's totally a shoe-leather scoop when you get the story. It's a "leak" when somebody else does. That's what The... More
Audit Notes: due diligence, Elizabeth Warren, the Murdoch way
More evidence from private lawsuits on unprosecuted bank executives
By Ryan Chittum Feb 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle Times follows last week's reports on Dexia's lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase of fraud for its mortgage activities during... More
Amazon’s German labor fiasco
A subcontractor employed neo-Nazi guards to patrol immigrant workers
By Ryan Chittum Feb 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The story of Amazon's treatment of workers took a sensational turn last week when German public television revealed that temporary... More
Rubio and the Big Lie of the Crisis
The press fails to push back on the senator’s SOTU response whopper
By Ryan Chittum Feb 15, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Big Lie of the Crisis keeps rearing its ugly head. The latest spotting: Senator Marco Rubio's response to Obama's... More
Audit Notes: The FT does labor reporting, minimum wage, OC Register
An excellent look inside an Amazon warehouse in the UK
By Ryan Chittum Feb 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Financial Times has an excellent story on the dystopian work culture at Amazon warehouses: Inside, hundreds of people in... More
The NYT’s newspaper industry rarity: growth (UPDATED)
Its circulation strategy, led by the paywall, more than offsets ad losses in 2012
By Ryan Chittum Feb 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times's landmark metered paywall will be two years old next month, and it's already successful beyond anyone's... More
Audit Notes: Libor Rain Man, fraud without fraudsters, George Will on TBTF
The Journal spotlights an RBS banker at the center of the scandal
By Ryan Chittum Feb 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal's David Enrich has some great reporting on Tom Hayes, the RBS banker at the center of... More
Audit Notes: Wall Street fraud and coverup
JPMorgan “flouted quality controls and ignored problems, sometimes hiding them entirely”
By Ryan Chittum Feb 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times has a tough report on newly uncovered emails that show Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase knowingly misled... More
The NYT on the SEC’s hunt for Stevie Cohen
The case weakens as the statute of limitations winds down
By Felix Salmon Feb 7, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Peter Lattman have uncovered an interesting wrinkle in the SEC's case against Mathew Martoma, the most... More
Morgenson rebuts the Geithner hosannas
The Treasury Secretary’s legacy in context
By Ryan Chittum Feb 6, 2013 at 06:50 AM
There's been an unsettling amount of hagiography in the last few weeks as top Obama financial regulatory officials departed and... More
Bloomberg unearths an Italian bank scandal
Its story reverberates across Europe
By Ryan Chittum Feb 5, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Back in mid-January, Bloomberg's Elisa Martinuzzi and Nicholas Dunbar reported that Deutsche Bank helped Italy's third-largest bank, Monte Paschi, cover... More
Audit Notes: the anti-liquidation newspaper model, NYT on digital media doings
Ken Doctor spotlights Aaron Kushner’s investment at the OC Register
By Ryan Chittum Feb 4, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Ken Doctor has a fantastic post up at the Nieman Lab on the Orange County Register, which has actually been... More
China hacks the press
While the FBI probed whether it gave some traders an early look at government data
By Ryan Chittum Feb 1, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Yesterday The New York Times ran this remarkable story about how Chinese hackers, presumably aligned with the military, hacked into... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
