Audit Notes: Business Insider’s junkets, NYT’s union dig, naive AP April 1, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Henry Blodget’s site lets sources pay for business reporters’ overseas trips
Audit Notes: A fallen journo does retail, local gone wrong, Abelson March 13, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Former Politico reporter on falling down the ladder
Three stories, three tacks on a Walmart’s employee food drive November 20, 2013 By Ryan Chittum How the Plain Dealer, Business Insider, and Fox News told the news
Audit Notes: Fast Food welfare, finance in the doctor’s office, sharing economy October 18, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Taxpayers subsidize McDonald’s & Co. with $7 billion a year
Audit Notes: Ginger Baker, $15 minimum wage, fisking Niall October 14, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Cream legend just can’t stomach insipid questions from the press
The minimum wage and the Danish Big Mac September 5, 2013 By Ryan Chittum In Denmark, higher wages mean higher prices but they’re still worth it
Daily Beast doubles down on Big Mac minimum wage nonsense August 16, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Extrapolations collide with hard numbers
John Stossel’s poor logic on minimum wages and jobs July 30, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Fox host fails to explain away Australia’s high wages and low unemployment
A McDonald’s own-goal on wages July 16, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Accidentally exposing the fallacy of its own personal-finance advice to workers
Fortune‘s Nina Easton plumps for Walmart in DC July 12, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Retail employment is a zero-sum game
ProPublica probes the temp agencies July 2, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A lopsided power equation encourages abuses
The systemic plight of labor May 2, 2013 By Felix Salmon A revealing Thomas Friedman column on 401(k)s
Audit Notes: Retail life, statutes of limitations, newspaper bulls April 18, 2013 By Ryan Chittum CBS MoneyWatch looks at how shops jerk workers around
Audit Notes: WSJ and labor, Tumblr-speak, not the London whale April 15, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Getting it right on a nursing-home worker shortage
McDonald’s through management’s eyes, in the WSJ April 12, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Rude employees who, oh by the way, make poverty wages
Audit Notes: The Times-Picayune, Dimon’s hubris, the QuikTrip model March 28, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Shakeups in the Louisiana newspaper war
Fortune on the French February 26, 2013 By Ryan Chittum France’s "unproductive labor force" is, in fact, quite productive
Amazon’s German labor fiasco February 18, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A subcontractor employed neo-Nazi guards to patrol immigrant workers
The Post goes south on NAFTA September 17, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The paper ignores or glosses over Mexico trade’s effects on the US
Audit Notes: Newsweek standards, Luddite fallacy, crowdfunding scams August 22, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Everyone but the magazine fact checks Niall Ferguson
Audit Notes: Fake or real Jeff Jarvis?, Wolf on Ryan, robots and labor August 21, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Replacing copyright with something called "creditright"
SmartMoney is confused on wages, inflation August 17, 2012 By Ryan Chittum When prices matter and when they don’t
A critical eye on the ‘skills gap’ August 14, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Free Press, Star Tribune, and USA Today ask questions
Audit Notes: Glass-Steagall II, beyond paywalls, warehouse work July 3, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The FT comes out in favor of hiving off investment banks
Audit Notes: Decline of Labor Edition June 8, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Unions, inequality, and billionaires versus organized workers
The Seattle Times Takes On Hometown Amazon April 10, 2012 By Ryan Chittum A tough series on the dark side of the booming local company