The Audit

Audit Notes: GE Corruption, Poor Subsidizing the Rich, Takedown

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 27, 2010 at 08:55 PM

Footnoted's Theo Francis spotlights an eye-raising settlement by GE, which essentially confessed to bribing foreign officials (in Iraq, no less)... More

Seven Top-Paid CEOs Lost Shareholders’ Money in the 2000s

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 27, 2010 at 06:24 PM

The Wall Street Journal runs the numbers on the Top 25 Highest Paid CEOs of the Decade and they are,... More

WSJ’s Stimulus-Debate Story is Debatable

A page-one piece says economists question whether stimulus makes things worse but can’t find any who actually do

By Holly Yeager   Jul 27, 2010 at 03:59 PM

The Wall Street Journal goes big with a story on the debate over stimulus spending. But the piece doesn’t deliver... More

Reuters Gets a Wall Street Take on Warren

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 27, 2010 at 10:52 AM

What would it sound like on Wall Street if we got a regulator like, say, Elizabeth Warren, who is resolutely... More

Audit Notes: Angelides; Goldman Sachs; Broke, Fat, and Stoned

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 26, 2010 at 08:31 PM

In non-polo news, the Financial Times scooped this morning that the Financial Crisis Inquiry (aka Angelides) Commission is threatening to... More

Looking the Other Way on Wall Street

NYT’s Morgenson reports that Wall Street knew that bundled loans didn’t meet standards

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 26, 2010 at 05:54 PM

Gretchen Morgenson had an excellent column in yesterday's Times that gets at one of the core issues if criminal cases... More

On Tax-Cut Politics, WSJ Adds to the Confusion

By Holly Yeager   Jul 26, 2010 at 05:50 PM

The Wall Street Journal takes its turn at the tax-cuts-as-election-issue story. But in trying to explain the politics that are... More

“The Word Was Polo; The Man, Ralph Lauren”

Place those special sections, gleefully, in the recycle pile unread

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 26, 2010 at 11:43 AM

One of the dirty little secrets of the newspaper business is that you should almost never bother to read a... More

It’s Still Unclear Why Cassano Got Off the Hook

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 23, 2010 at 06:16 PM

The Wall Street Journal's leder this morning explores why the government dropped its criminal fraud investigation of AIG's Joseph Cassano,... More

NYT’s Rangel Work Gets Results on the Hill

But rest of the press tries not to notice

By Holly Yeager   Jul 23, 2010 at 12:43 PM

A House ethics panel’s ruling that Charlie Rangel violated congressional rules is big news all around today, as it should... More

Audit Notes: Pretty-Penny Paywall, Booty, Fair Trade

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2010 at 10:21 PM

The New York Times says it is spending more than $7 million every three months to develop its paywall. (CEO... More

Bright Spots For the Times in Digital Revenue

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2010 at 07:29 PM

The New York Times reported (relatively) good second-quarter numbers today—especially in digital ads, up 20 percent in its division—and Jeff... More

WaPo’s Chamber Piece Misses a Few Notes

The paper reports the lobby group is “losing,” but doesn’t hear the ringing of cash registers

By Holly Yeager   Jul 22, 2010 at 03:58 PM

The Washington Post looks at the recent record of the Chamber of Commerce and puts a lot in the loss... More

WSJ’s Good Coverage of Warren and the CFPB

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2010 at 02:22 PM

The Wall Street Journal's leder today on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shows the paper in fine form. If you... More

CNBC’s Dennis Kneale Goes Native

Cultivating powerful sources at the expense of telling the story

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 21, 2010 at 09:19 PM

We may have ourselves a new poster boy of Access Journalism. Say hello to CNBC's Dennis Kneale, protector of the... More