The Audit

How the media gets the price of Thanksgiving dinner wrong

ABC, NBC, Tech Times, and The Atlantic run with a press release

November 26, 2014 By Ryan Chittum

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Exclusive excerpts: ‘The Gestation Period of Llama (Or why I quit The Wall Street Journal)’

June 3, 2013 By Dean Starkman

In an new essay, a former investigative reporter explains how a Murdoch-ized operation led her to leave journalism and reinvent herself

Audit Notes: Goldman dissembles, Corporate taxes, Silicon Valley

May 31, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

Bloomberg View shreds the bank’s too-big-to-fail apology

No, it’s not another housing bubble

May 30, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

Hysteria in pockets of the press over a long-awaited recovery

Promiscuous media

May 29, 2013 By Felix Salmon

Publishing content where it fits best

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

Audit Notes: The IRS story in context, Silicon Valley oligarchs

May 23, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

Necessary context from ProPublica and the NYT on the overblown scandal

Bloggers for hire on a penny-stock pump and dump

May 22, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

The Motley Fool digs into a brazen and successful scheme to manipulate share prices

OKC’s TV news excels in another disaster

May 21, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

Life-saving information before the tornado, essential reporting afterward

How technology redefines norms

May 20, 2013 By Felix Salmon

Reasonable resistance to the upending of cultural mores is not "technopanic"

Audit Notes: WSJ on the IRS, countering Kinsley, Cramer gets an ‘F’

May 20, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

The paper mishandles news on the Tea Party targeting story

Peggy Noonan loses it on the IRS story

May 17, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

The Journal columnist draws an evidence-free connection to the White House

The other IRS target: the press

May 16, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

The nonprofit news experience undermines the Tea Party targeting outrage

Audit Notes: Student loan profits, paywall incentives, postal banking

May 15, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

The Huffington Post on a government bonanza

The Bloomberg terminal scandal

May 14, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

Not nearly in the Murdoch hacking league, but it requires a cultural shift

Audit Notes: Bloomberg apologizes, Snow Fall re-imagined, Carr on Advance

May 13, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

Winkler admits reporters should never have had access to customer data