Audit Notes: WSJ ‘leeway’ for Suzanne Somers, NYT ads, John Henry October 31, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The paper entrusts fact-checking to the factually challenged
The extraordinary promise of the new Greenwald-Omidyar venture (UPDATED) October 17, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Adversarial muckrakers + civic-minded billionaire = a whole new world
Audit Notes: Stuart Varney, German papers, Pando garbage October 4, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Fox anchor tries on the Lou Dobbs faux-populist mantle, fails
Lessons from The Dallas Morning News‘s failed paywall October 2, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The paper shuns the meter model and flops
The Post on how the Grahams lost the paper (UPDATED) September 30, 2013 By Ryan Chittum An excellent report shows how management, beset by industry decline, made things worse
Russell Brand on the press and power September 18, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Ejected from a British GQ event for jokes aimed at the corporate sponsor
Audit Notes: Daily Beast, Countrywide shareholders, a liberal in NYC September 12, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Tina Brown is out as editor of the money-bleeding website
Audit Notes: Reporting numbers, The Onion on the hamster wheel, info consumerism September 10, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Francine McKenna on how to handle unaudited financials
Advance Publications scraps AnnArbor.com September 9, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A return to The Ann Arbor News name and integration with MLive
A weakened Washington Post, a serious ethical breach September 6, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Erik Wemple hits his own paper for hopping the wall between ads and news
Innumeracy in The New York Times on Politico August 16, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Revenue is not profit, Ross Douthat
Applaud the Grahams, but acknowledge their failures August 13, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The praise gets a bit out of hand
Audit Notes: Another Obama fraud stat unravels, doctor cartel, NYT August 12, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Bloomberg helps uncover wildly inflated mortgage prosecution numbers
Audit Radio: Dean Starkman, Bill Adair on Bezos August 9, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio
Contra Yglesias, newspapers have lost readers to the Web August 8, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Junk traffic and loyal readers, yet again