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Those immobile newspaper companies
Only 22 percent of a big sample even offer mobile products
By Dean Starkman May 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM
One of the truisms of digital journalism, and one that happens to be true, is that mobile is a big... More
The importance of counting stories
Schiffrin and Fagan quantify weaknesses in coverage of the stimulus
By Dean Starkman Apr 30, 2013 at 03:10 PM
One of the cold, hard facts of media punditry is that no one can read everything—or should be expected... More
Wall Street Journal: time to look in the mirror
Its Pulitzer shutout reaches six years
By Dean Starkman Apr 17, 2013 at 11:04 AM
Stop me if you've heard this one: Old man goes to shul, prays: "Dear God, just once, let me... More
60 Minutes’s Chevron pollution story springs a leak
An on-camera expert recants in a court statement
By Dean Starkman Apr 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Three years ago, we weighed in on a bitter media dispute pitting Chevron against 60 Minutes over a piece... More
Newspaper revenue: good news, bad news
Mostly bad as revenue stops its free-fall but ads remain weak
By Dean Starkman Apr 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Newspaper Association of America takes some comfort, and with some reason, in the news that newspaper revenues declined... More
Investigative collaboration, cross-border edition
A landmark series on offshore tax havens from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
By Dean Starkman Apr 8, 2013 at 11:05 AM
A good sign that your investigation has hit the mark is when law enforcement agencies start demanding to see... More
Advance to nowhere
Newhouse-owned chain slogs forward with discredited free-news model, now in Cleveland
By Dean Starkman Apr 4, 2013 at 05:00 PM
Advance Publications's announcement today on the future of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was less dramatic than the one a year... More
Digital ads and grains of salt
Assessing recent claims
By Dean Starkman Apr 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Some data are better than no data, I suppose, but it always pays to be skeptical when companies disclose... More
Three things to like about the Times OSHA exposé
And one thing not to like at all
By Dean Starkman Apr 1, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Ian Urbina's magisterial probe in The New York Times of OSHA's failure to police long-term health risks—like harmful fumes caused... More
The Rise of Longform Newspaper Writing, 1950s-2003
Fink and Schudson document the rise of “contexual journalism” before the longform meltdown.
By Dean Starkman Mar 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Katherine Fink and Michael Schudson have a fantastic new paper called "The Rise of Contextual Journalism, 1950s-2003," to be... More
Q&A with the FT’s Martin Dickson
A new US managing editor takes over at the salmon-colored financial daily
By Dean Starkman Jan 28, 2013 at 07:00 AM
Martin Dickson came on as US managing editor of the Financial Times in September, succeeding Gillian Tett, who is on... More
Longform meltdown (cont.)
Reaction to a post on the decline of longform stories at major papers
By Dean Starkman Jan 22, 2013 at 07:00 AM
My post presenting data showing that major newspapers drastically cut back their longform story output in the last decade generated... More
Major papers’ longform meltdown
Stories longer than 2,000 words down 86 percent at the LAT since 2003, 50 percent at WaPo, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jan 17, 2013 at 03:11 PM
No one equates story-length with quality. Let’s start with that concession. But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you consider... More
Native ads’ existential problem
L’affaire Atlantic/Scientology points up the format’s built-in problems for news
By Dean Starkman Jan 15, 2013 at 11:00 PM
The Atlantic’s big mistake in the Scientololgy “debacle” has been variously described as: 1. Running an ad in the... More
EXCLUSIVE: WSJ memo doubles down on scoops
An internal memo over the transom
By Dean Starkman Jan 10, 2013 at 07:20 PM
Fresh over the transom, a new memo from The Wall Street Journal’s hierarchy on the importance of scoops to reporters’... More
Murdoch’s straw snobs
The phony war on “elitist” journalism
By Dean Starkman Jan 8, 2013 at 07:03 AM
It’s often hard to tell when Rupert Murdoch’s biographer, Michael Wolff, is merely transmitting his subject’s views or whether... More
A valuable walk through a 10-K
Partnoy and Eisinger keep it simple
By Dean Starkman Jan 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Sometimes, when faced with the unholy mess that is financial regulation, the best idea is to keep it simple,... More
Andrew Sullivan’s bold experiment
And how to think about it
By Dean Starkman Jan 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The great journalism paywall debate has picked up steam lately as more newspapers move away from the idea of giving... More
Best of 2012: Dean Starkman
The Audit chief’s best of the year
By Dean Starkman Dec 31, 2012 at 01:17 PM
A Narrowed Gaze — How the business press forgot the rest of us. What McClure Said: “The Story is the... More
The real problem with that Dealbook conference
In a reputational transaction between Wall Street and a newspaper, guess who wins?
By Dean Starkman Dec 20, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The discussion around the corporate star-studded Dealbook conference last week was good, but I don’t think it got to... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
