Market power and the media baron June 9, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The anti-competitive practices of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos
The WSJ short-arms a promising Amazon piece August 22, 2013 By Ryan Chittum On how physical retailers are getting more competitive on prices
The Washington Post‘s pension math August 19, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Grahams didn’t effectively pay to unload the paper
Q&A: Steve Coll on the WaPo purchase August 7, 2013 By Brent Cunningham The new dean of Columbia’s Journalism School worked at the Washington Post for two decades
Jeff Bezos and his journalists August 6, 2013 By Felix Salmon For newspapers, greatness emerges mysteriously from the slack in the system–not from efficiency
Shock, sorrow, and snark at the WaPo sale August 6, 2013 By Edirin Oputu Reactions to the Washington Post‘s surprise sale
Audit Notes: The Bezos Post August 6, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Little early information in the wake of an epic media earthquake
Jeff Bezos’s landmark purchase of the Washington Post August 5, 2013 By Ryan Chittum We’ve now officially entered the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse–for good or ill
Legacy media musical chairs August 5, 2013 By Kira Goldenberg Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post, and that’s just Monday’s media sale announcement
Audit Notes: Amazon watch, the Capitalist Tool, WSJ and Pinochet July 8, 2013 By Ryan Chittum NYT finds the dominant bookseller reining in the discounts in some areas
ProPublica probes the temp agencies July 2, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A lopsided power equation encourages abuses
Fortune goes long on Amazon and taxes May 24, 2013 By Ryan Chittum How the retailer manipulated a broken government system to get an unfair advantage
BusinessWeek’s billion-dollar boo-boo March 29, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A poor piece spreads bogus news about Amazon’s Goodreads acquisition
Amazon’s German labor fiasco February 18, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A subcontractor employed neo-Nazi guards to patrol immigrant workers
Audit Notes: The FT does labor reporting, minimum wage, OC Register February 13, 2013 By Ryan Chittum An excellent look inside an Amazon warehouse in the UK
Amazon takes a tax hit, finally January 18, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Reuters reports early signs that collecting sales taxes affected the company’s sales
Audit Notes: Amazon’s shell company, The Lens, Plain Dealer cuts December 14, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Reuters unwinds how the online retail giant avoided taxes via Luxembourg
Amazon sharecroppers November 27, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Seattle Times on the hometown giant’s uneasy relationship with its merchants
Audit Notes: Amazon and antitrust, techspeak, ‘Peter Drucker with an Afro’ September 12, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The DOJ’s ebook settlement could enable anticompetitive behavior
The Goldman Sachs of online retail July 13, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The FT with a good look at Amazon’s Marketplace platform
Audit Notes: Insufferable in Aspen, Libor, Amazon Marketplace June 29, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Ending universal suffrage intrigues a CNBCer
Amazon’s California tax squeeze May 31, 2012 By Ryan Chittum A WSJ follow story waters down an LAT scoop from two weeks ago
Ebooks and Antitrust April 11, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Justice Department sues Apple and five book publishers for fighting Amazon