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Opening Bell: Summer Break
A disaster-free Monday; KKR goes public; hope for newspapers
By Dean Starkman Jul 28, 2008 at 08:03 AM
A nice slow start to the week, financial disaster-wise, as no big investment bank announced a major writedown, no bad... More
The Journal’s Many Anonymice
And why Jack Shafer needs a better mousetrap
By Dean Starkman Jul 16, 2008 at 01:04 PM
Our crony in criticism, Slate’s Jack Shafer, stumbles this morning in an otherwise interesting discussion about which major media outlets... More
The Answer Man?
Good luck, Marcus. You’ll need it.
By Dean Starkman Jul 8, 2008 at 05:57 PM
Now that The Washington Post has chosen Marcus Brauchli over Phil Bennett to be its new executive editor, I hope... More
Fact Fight!
Insurers make “error” allegations vs. Bloomberg News—nick Deadline Club
By Dean Starkman Jul 8, 2008 at 12:00 PM
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. -- John Dewey A big Bloomberg News... More
Brauchli’s Baggage
What he would carry to The Washington Post
By Dean Starkman Jun 25, 2008 at 11:29 AM
The day will come when the next executive editor of The Washington Post will have to choose between the easy... More
The WSJ Edit Page and the Mortgage Industry
Does it really expect us to forget what it wrote?
By Dean Starkman Jun 20, 2008 at 02:06 PM
Being a Wall Street Journal editorial writer means never having to say you’re sorry. Those literary lions of Liberty Street... More
Don’t Panic
A media consultant on the future of newspapers
By Dean Starkman Jun 20, 2008 at 11:13 AM
From time to time, The Audit will interview thought leaders about both financial journalism and the finances of journalism. John... More
Turning Point: Middle Class Under Seige
Remember, it’s the policies, not the market’s “unseen hand”
By Dean Starkman Jun 11, 2008 at 09:00 AM
This is part five of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election’s general campaign. Links to the... More
The Winkler Way—Okay?
With Bloomberg News at a crossroads, an audience with its maximum leader
By Dean Starkman Jun 3, 2008 at 11:30 AM
I am deep inside Bloomberg LP’s global headquarters, the Lexington Avenue office of the financial-information giant. With its post-modernist design—sweeping... More
Worse Than It Seems
Drilling down to the rotten foundation of the economic crisis
By Dean Starkman May 27, 2008 at 09:00 AM
With the economy apparently already in recession, gas prices near record levels, food prices rising, and inflation generally gaining momentum,... More
60 Minutes’s Biovail Trainwreck (cont.)
A news magazine’s corporate “victim” pleads guilty
By Dean Starkman May 22, 2008 at 10:05 AM
Last month, we wrote how 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl had botched a business story by using, of all companies,... More
WSJ’s Committee of the Absurd
Waiting for a complaint that will never come
By Dean Starkman May 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM
I see The Wall Street Journal’s Special Committee has given itself a new name, or at least tried to define... More
The Anglo-ization of The Wall Street Journal
A struggle over the editor was about much more than turf
By Dean Starkman May 8, 2008 at 01:16 PM
LAKE JACKSON, Texas -- When Lisa Kelly learned she had leukemia in late 2006, her doctor advised her to... More
Little Buttercup
The Bancroft’s opera singer/News Corp. director is “unavailable for comment”
By Dean Starkman May 1, 2008 at 03:00 PM
And what of the opera singer? You remember: Natalie Bancroft, the twenty-something aspiring diva who wound up on News Corp.’s... More
WSJ committee Must Prove Its Mettle
It gets benefit of doubt, but now it’s time to fight
By Dean Starkman Apr 30, 2008 at 11:52 AM
At a certain point, tragedy turns into farce, and we are getting awfully close to clown-car territory at The Wall... More
The WSJ’s Little Committee That Failed…
To protect the paper’s editorial independence
By Dean Starkman Apr 24, 2008 at 02:47 PM
So much for the editorial side agreement that was supposed to protect The Wall Street Journal’s editorial independence from News... More
Brauchli’s Exit Is…
The end of the beginning of the end of what made the Journal special
By Dean Starkman Apr 22, 2008 at 12:26 PM
The abrupt resignation of Marcus Brauchli as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal is surprising even to those of... More
Open Letter to Les Moonves
Don’t pay Couric’s successor $15 million; invest in journalists instead
By Dean Starkman Apr 16, 2008 at 12:30 PM
If nothing else, Katie Couric’s earlier-than-expected departure from the CBS Evening News should call into question the superstar anchor system... More
Congress and the Press—Together Again
Oversight helps the business press, too
By Dean Starkman Apr 14, 2008 at 08:31 AM
What a difference Congressional oversight makes—for the business press, if nothing else. The last two weeks, the financial (and front)... More
Audit Mailbag: ‘Stop the Class Warfare’
So says an editor; The Journal’s use of a housing stat sparks a squabble; we are praised, etc.
By Dean Starkman Apr 9, 2008 at 12:54 PM
The Audit sometimes gets interesting mail from readers, and from time to time we’ll be posting some of it in... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
