Pulitzers A Triumph For Investigations

Nothing like this on a blog

By Dean Starkman   Apr 8, 2008 at 12:23 PM

Army officials say they "started an aggressive campaign to deal with the mice infestation" last October and that the problem... More

Stahled

By Dean Starkman   Mar 31, 2008 at 01:03 PM

We don’t mean to pick on Lesley Stahl, in particular, but that Al Gore piece last night on 60 Minutes... More

60 Minutes Blows Biovail Story

SEC sues drug maker Lesley Stahl defended

By Dean Starkman   Mar 26, 2008 at 11:08 PM

The Securities and Exchange Commission sued a Canadian drug maker this week—and in the process blew apart the premise of... More

In the Mad Money Swamp

What part of “Bear Stearns is fine” don’t you understand?

By Dean Starkman   Mar 24, 2008 at 02:12 PM

"Bear Stearns is fine,"—Jim Cramer, on CNBC’s Mad Money, March 11. The Mad Money swamp beckons. The Audit cannot resist... More

The Other Side of Schadenfreude

Searching for a non-Wall Street perspective on Spitzer’s fall

By Dean Starkman   Mar 19, 2008 at 01:38 PM

Who remembers the schadenfreude? It was only a week ago—it feels like another era— that financial news publications rushed to... More

Another Baseless Screed

As will most press-bias rants, Strassel’s piece is hollow

By Dean Starkman   Mar 13, 2008 at 05:27 PM

“Many reporters built careers on the prosecutor’s leaks intended to bully innocent people” - Kimberly A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal... More

Red Ink Rising

How the press missed a sea change in the credit-card industry

By Dean Starkman   Mar 13, 2008 at 09:00 AM

One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in... More

Eakes!

Forbes’s flawed probe of a prescient consumer advocate

By Dean Starkman   Mar 12, 2008 at 09:46 AM

Forbes readers will be forgiven their confusion after reading a recent profile of Martin Eakes, a leading anti-predatory-lending crusader. Headlined... More

Popular? Must Be “Populist”

Why does the press use “populist” to refer to policies that are simply liberal?

By Dean Starkman   Feb 20, 2008 at 03:59 PM

Before this gets out of hand, big media needs to stop using the word “populist" to describe Democrats’ economic programs... More

Democrats Attack “Business,” “Trade”

Or so says The Wall Street Journal on page one

By Dean Starkman   Feb 18, 2008 at 01:55 PM

Wary Wall Street Journal watchers on the lookout for signs that Rupert Murdoch’s pro-corporate agenda will creep into the Journal’s... More

Mad Money, Bad Blood

Why CNBC threw Barron’s off its air

By Dean Starkman   Feb 15, 2008 at 07:45 AM

Last summer, Barron’s published a tough story on Jim Cramer, concluding that the manic and popular star of CNBC’s Mad... More

Oklahoma 1999

Lessons on insurance reporting from a nine-year-old disaster

By Dean Starkman   Feb 8, 2008 at 10:59 AM

Before we turn the page on the deadly tornadoes in the south that killed fifty-seven this week, according to the... More

Conspicuous Assumption

The Times recycles discredited myths about personal debt

By Dean Starkman   Feb 5, 2008 at 01:40 PM

The New York Times poorly serves readers this morning with a surprisingly ill-informed story about Americans paying cash these days... More

Stretched Ethics

Incoming head of WSJ’s new luxury magazine plugged her own yoga business, quoted a partner in Times of London columns

By Dean Starkman   Jan 31, 2008 at 12:20 PM

The new chief of an upcoming Wall Street Journal magazine aimed at the superrich quoted her business partner in a... More

Zell The Manager

This year’s management theory

By Dean Starkman   Jan 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM

The back and forth between another newly dismissed Los Angeles Times editor who refused to carry out another round of... More

Tale of a Winning Bet Against Predators

WSJ scores with great subprime story

By Dean Starkman   Jan 15, 2008 at 12:41 PM

The Audit congratulates The Wall Street Journal for a riveting read this morning on the big winner in the subprime... More

Journalism Makes Them Uncomfortable

A mutant strain of journalism criticism

By Dean Starkman   Jan 10, 2008 at 12:19 PM

TheDeal.com the other day wanted to know who leaked the story about Jimmy Cayne being pushed from his job as... More

Unsupported and Untrue

WSJ lacks evidence to support a sweeping, front-page claim against mortgage borrowers

By Dean Starkman   Jan 2, 2008 at 01:33 PM

The lead story in a recent Wall Street Journal says that borrower fraud "goes a long way toward explaining why... More

Letting Sleeping Watchdogs Lie

The business press rediscovers regulators

By Dean Starkman   Dec 20, 2007 at 03:20 PM

Reading business-press coverage of Henry Paulson over the past few months was disorienting. Something was missing, but you couldn’t put... More

Downie Overdoes It

A mostly reasonable defense of a reporter oversteps a fairness boundary

By Dean Starkman   Dec 19, 2007 at 02:38 PM

In an otherwise reasonable and spirited defense of a reporter, The Washington Post’s Leonard Downie Jr. trips by employing ad... More