The Audit

A Times Must-Read on the News Corp. Hacking Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2010 at 04:05 PM

The New York Times Magazine is out with a riveting story on the corruption at News Corporation's News International division.... More

New Job, Less Pay

The NYT looks at wages in the recovery

By Holly Yeager   Sep 1, 2010 at 02:14 PM

The New York Times does good work today, looking at an issue that hasn’t received enough attention: “the quality of... More

The Press in the Reality Distortion Field

Gossip, rumor, rank speculation—all on the table if it’s an Apple product

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2010 at 11:15 AM

It's Apple day. Which means it's time for the press to forget completely about its normal standards and wade neck-deep... More

Audit Notes: The System, Gamed, Carried Interest, Deseret

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2010 at 09:19 PM

Michael Hudson, who's got a book out in a few weeks on how predatory-lending fed the financial bubble, responds to... More

Timesmen Type Up Intel CEO’s Excuses on Jobs

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2010 at 06:25 PM

There's no need for me to reiterate what others like Dean Baker, Yves Smith, and Andrew Leonard have already written... More

A Poor FT Page-One Pay Story

Pushing the big-business line in a lobbying campaign on pay disclosure

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2010 at 11:38 AM

Boy, sometimes it's just flat out hard to figure the Financial Times—a smart newspaper that not infrequently does dumb things,... More

Audit Notes: Our Glass Jaw, Financial Crises, Extend and Pretend

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 30, 2010 at 10:42 PM

If you're looking for a single anecdote to sum up the demise of the American economy, you could do worse... More

Two Can Play That Game, Rupert

The Times has the smarter strategy in the head-to-head with The Wall Street Journal

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 30, 2010 at 05:09 PM

Rupert Murdoch has de-emphasized business coverage in The Wall Street Journal since buying the paper in 2007, something that The... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Kurtz Conflicted, Citizens United Reconsidered, Privatization Debated

By Holly Yeager   Aug 30, 2010 at 04:02 PM

Howard Kurtz’s dual roles as Washington Post media writer and CNN host have come under plenty of scrutiny before. But... More

Susanne Craig leaving WSJ for the NYT

A blow to the Journal

By Dean Starkman   Aug 30, 2010 at 01:59 PM

Susanne Craig, one of The Wall Street Journal’s star Wall Street reporters, is moving to The New York Times, a... More

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