A Pecora-Style Commission Will Help the Narrative

By Dean Starkman   Jun 12, 2009 at 01:39 PM

This occurred to me while reading the extensive coverage leading up to, the live blogging of, the video, and next-day... More

Business Journalism Saves Planet

From near-certain disaster

By Dean Starkman   Jun 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM

Bloomberg has a nice item showing the power of the business press for good. Or at least the power of... More

Attitude Adjustment

By Dean Starkman   Jun 11, 2009 at 09:45 AM

Bloomberg's Jon Weil offers a helpful perspective on how to think about all these Wall Street goings on, such at... More

WSJ Flicks on Lights in a Wall Street Corner

By Dean Starkman   Jun 11, 2009 at 08:32 AM

A terrific story in the Journal this morning shines a light on what the country's brightest minds do all day... More

Man on Wire

By Dean Starkman   Jun 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM

I understand, of course, the American journalism convention to keep opinions out of news columns and to stick to verifiable... More

More Fed Coverage, Please

By Dean Starkman   Jun 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM

The MSMs all have short items on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's unusal subpoena of the Federal... More

Language Matters at the Globe

By Dean Starkman   Jun 9, 2009 at 04:30 PM

I wish The Wall Street Journal had taken better care in crafting the lede of its story on the Boston... More

“My Sources Say No”

By Dean Starkman   Jun 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM

That's the answer I got when I asked Magic Eight Ball whether our beyond-worst-case financial catastrophe will result in effective... More

Settlement Closes the Book on a Nigerian Tale

By Dean Starkman   Jun 9, 2009 at 08:35 AM

I, for one, enjoy a good civil trial. You never know what you might learn. The business papers this morning... More

Bloomberg With Nice Details on UBS Tax-Cheating Service

By Dean Starkman   Jun 8, 2009 at 06:38 PM

A cool story from Bloomberg pries some nice details from the tax-avoidance case that for the last few years has... More

Guilty Pleasure

By Dean Starkman   Jun 8, 2009 at 03:13 PM

I know it was last week's cover, but don't let my tardiness cause you to miss Steve Fishman's New York... More

When Mozilo Met Morgenson

By Dean Starkman   Jun 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM

Before we get too far from the fraud charges the Securities and Exchange Commission filed against Angelo Mozilo last week,... More

The Sun, Times Follow the Subprime Muck

By Dean Starkman   Jun 8, 2009 at 08:35 AM

The Baltimore Sun and New York Times recently gave some attention to under-reported social and class aspects of the mortgage... More

Learning Journalism Lessons of the Past

By Dean Starkman   Jun 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM

The Times this morning continues strong recent press performance on the busted-and-bailed-out banking industry's Golem-like resilience and continued potency in... More

Journal Remains Citi Scoop Central

By Dean Starkman   Jun 5, 2009 at 07:48 AM

Ryan Chittum has now left the undisclosed location in the D.C. area (Langley) where he works to go on vacation.... More

The List

What the business press did (and didn’t do) while the financial crisis was brewing

By Dean Starkman   May 6, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Welcome to the List, a comprehensive catalog of relevant stories produced by major business-news outlets on the lending industry and... More

No Pulitzers, But Here’s an Audie

Financial news is shut out on journalism’s big day

By Dean Starkman   Apr 21, 2009 at 01:45 PM

We don’t have anything to do with Pulitzers here at the Columbia Journalism Review, other than bask in their reflected... More

Speedy Kills

A new Journal edict to employees will hurt the paper

By Dean Starkman   Mar 23, 2009 at 03:58 PM

Back in the summer of 2007, when the world was a cartoon version of today and Dow Jones & Co.... More

Listening to Kilgore

In a new biography, the journalism pioneer has something to tell us; will we hear him?

By Dean Starkman   Mar 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM

Barney Kilgore, the inventor of the modern Wall Street Journal and, in important respects, the best of America journalism as... More

Ansberry’s Grim Tales of the Non-Retired

By Dean Starkman   Feb 23, 2009 at 02:49 PM

I suspect I'm not the only one who read this WSJ story about workers in their 70s and 80s scuffling... More