Market power and the media baron June 9, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The anti-competitive practices of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos
Audit Notes: NYT’s Goldman elevator coverage, hacking trial, mobile competition February 27, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The Times buries the lede
Reuters deeply alarmed by competition in the cellphone industry January 16, 2014 By Ryan Chittum In the silo with Wall Street on worries about T-Mobile hurting profit margins
Audit Notes: Sysco is hungry, Michael Wolff, Big Viral January 10, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The WSJ looks at consolidation in the food business
T-Mobile shows upside of M&A skepticism October 11, 2013 By Ryan Chittum After AT&T’s disastrous attempted acquisition, T-Mobile upends convention
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
Amazon sharecroppers November 27, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Seattle Times on the hometown giant’s uneasy relationship with its merchants
The NYT unseals a private-equity scoop October 12, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Emails between executives look like antitrust smoking guns
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 NYT’s weak coverage of rental-car consolidation August 28, 2012 By Ryan Chittum With Hertz/Dollar Thrifty deal, three companies would have 94 percent of the market
The Goldman Sachs of online retail July 13, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The FT with a good look at Amazon’s Marketplace platform
Reuters’s Chesapeake Energy drumbeat July 5, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Internal emails show companies scheming to lower bids on drilling rights
Ebooks and Antitrust April 11, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Justice Department sues Apple and five book publishers for fighting Amazon
American Banker Shows DOJ Sat On a Bank-Kickback Scandal September 7, 2011 By Ryan Chittum HUD says big banks got $6 billion, but the attorney general does nothing
Good Consolidation Coverage for a Change on AT&T Deal March 21, 2011 By Ryan Chittum The business press is skeptical of creating a duopoly in cell phone service