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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Audit Notes: WSJ goes long, Valleywag, Boston Globe paywall

April 23, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

With a Boston bombings story, the paper shows what it can still do

The social media tail mustn’t wag the MSM dog

April 22, 2013 By Felix Salmon

A crowdsourced hunt for the bombers was unambiguously counterproductive

On a wild night of news, a remarkable press performance

April 19, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

While Reddit fails again

The New York Post‘s disgrace

April 19, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

The paper smears a kid and a young man on its front page as possible terrorists

Audit Notes: Retail life, statutes of limitations, newspaper bulls

April 18, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

CBS MoneyWatch looks at how shops jerk workers around

Paywalls did not cause the fall of WSJ longform

April 17, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

The Atlantic‘s Alexis Madrigal misses the Murdoch

Wall Street Journal: time to look in the mirror

April 17, 2013 By Dean Starkman

Its Pulitzer shutout reaches six years

The problem with financial literacy as a fix

April 17, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

Helaine Olen on enabling blame-the-victims apologies

Audit Notes: Reinflating the bubble, Nader in the WSJ

April 16, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

The LA Times reports on a new rush in Southern California

60 Minutes‘s Chevron pollution story springs a leak

April 16, 2013 By Dean Starkman

An on-camera expert recants in a court statement

The native matrix

April 15, 2013 By Felix Salmon

Making critical distinctions

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

Populism and financial crises