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“Ailing” vs. “Embattled”
With its hand out to the government, Goldman gets a journalistic handout from the Times
By Dean Starkman Sep 25, 2008 at 06:07 PM
A front-page headline on Wednesday with an article about Warren E. Buffett’s plan to invest $5 billion in the Wall... More
Roundup: A Two-Sided Scandal
Don’t forget how this started; Times, Journal, others, on pricing the waste; Frank, Will, etc.
By Dean Starkman Sep 24, 2008 at 09:16 AM
One thing forgotten by the business press in the debate over the $700 billion bailout, I think, is that this... More
Audit Roundup: Context, Please
Bloomberg takes a stab; Ritholtz on point; the Times looks for outrage, etc.
By Dean Starkman Sep 23, 2008 at 09:32 AM
If I were a newspaper editor right now I’d be ordering more stories like this Bloomberg piece, which gropes for... More
Audit Roundup: Without Words
How to convey a disgrace; useful ideas from Krugman, Morgenson; WSJ edit page blames community groups, etc.
By Dean Starkman Sep 22, 2008 at 09:01 AM
The business press has done its usual thorough job of explaining the whos, whats and wherefores of this historic weekend,... More
Audit Roundup: Weil, Eisinger vs. White Noise
Wall Street things you don’t need to bone up on
By Dean Starkman Sep 19, 2008 at 08:21 AM
Readers who joined the business press conversation only recently must getting a headache by now. Wall Street is imploding, and... More
It Really Is That Bad
A Journal headline finally says it
By Dean Starkman Sep 18, 2008 at 11:42 AM
People ask me if the business press has acted responsibly in describing the panic currently consuming global financial institutions and... More
Public Policy Matters After All
Where’s the reporting on the laws that built Wall Street’s house of cards?
By Dean Starkman Sep 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM
I’m wondering if any other newspaper and business-press readers are curious about the degree to which public policy, including laws... More
Boiler Room
The business press is missing the crooked heart of the credit crisis
By Dean Starkman Sep 16, 2008 at 10:43 AM
“Mr. Howard made it clear to the mortgage broker that he could not read or write, but his loan application... More
Yes, but…
Reader: The business press, too, is implicated in the current credit calamity
By Dean Starkman Sep 15, 2008 at 01:15 PM
A reader responds to this morning's post of qualified business-press praise: Dear Dean, Some comments. First, now that the horse... More
The Language of Calamity
The business press finds its voice in covering Wall Street’s implosion
By Dean Starkman Sep 14, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Even casual business press readers by now know that what is happening on Wall Street is new, unusual, historic, unfamiliar,... More
Roanoke Chronicles (cont.)
Plain English needed at the Times
By Dean Starkman Sep 12, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Is it any wonder that newspapers are going the way of the Interstate Commerce Commission? Michael Stowe, managing editor of... More
Meanwhile, in Michigan
Voter disenfranchisement gets creative
By Dean Starkman Sep 11, 2008 at 03:34 PM
Original reporting is a beautiful thing, and so all journophiles should take heart at the local online “papers” springing up... More
Something’s Rotten in Roanoke
Times is silent on reassignment of reporter after local hospital pulls its ads
By Dean Starkman Sep 9, 2008 at 03:00 PM
The Roanoke Times is strangely silent about whether it reassigned a reporter at the behest of a big local business.... More
Wall Street Sank Freddie and Fannie
Coverage of the bailout could use a dose of recent history
By Dean Starkman Sep 8, 2008 at 01:17 PM
My only quibble with the gusher of stories this morning on the government’s takeover on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... More
“I Got Screwed Up”
BusinessWeek’s Gene Marcial says his sources have no conflicts—but they often do
By Dean Starkman Aug 11, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Gene Marcial, the longtime writer of BusinessWeek’s “Inside Wall Street” column, is a business-press institution. For more than two decades,... More
Opening Bell: Are So/Are Not
…in a recession; yes, and there’s worse to come; in the vomitorium; on the bright side etc.
By Dean Starkman Aug 1, 2008 at 08:14 AM
A lot of people express frustration with “are-we or aren’t-we” economic stories, like the one this morning by The New... More
Opening Bell: One Miillioon Doollllars
Do auction-rate probes rate? Disney’s surprise; blaming mom, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 31, 2008 at 08:31 AM
I wonder sometimes about our priorities over here in the business space. Authorities and their chroniclers in the business press... More
Opening Bell: Gloom, Doom
Euro consumers pessimistic; profits to fall further; trade talks collapse. Hmm.
By Dean Starkman Jul 30, 2008 at 08:25 AM
Business is cyclical and so is business news, but even so it’s amazing how universally bad the news is across... More
Opening Bell: Marked to Market
The WSJ shines on Merrill’s stunner; British-Spanish air merger; disconnected from Alcatel, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 29, 2008 at 08:05 AM
Twenty-two cents. We now know the price of those collateralized debt obligations backed by loans foisted by Ameriquest and other... More
The Editor and the Architect
Time featured an editor’s husband, but didn’t tell readers
By Dean Starkman Jul 28, 2008 at 02:31 PM
A splashy new show at the Museum of Modern Art puts a spotlight on a three-year-old story in Time and... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
