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Tale of Two Citis
It took an obscure magazine to reveal how Sandy Weill built his empire on subprime lending. Why?
By Dean Starkman Oct 3, 2007 at 09:30 AM
A long time ago, before the turn of the century, subprime lending was a marginal business—economically, ethically, every way. The... More
$70-Million Nit
Los Angeles Times , Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, Fox, CNN, MSNBC make common error in reporting Rather’s lawsuit
By Dean Starkman Sep 24, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Reminder to headline writers and reporters on the Dan Rather-CBS lawsuit story: He didn't file a "$70-million lawsuit" last week.... More
Lovers of the Press, Liberty Must Root for Cubs
A call to patriots everywhere
By Dean Starkman Sep 21, 2007 at 11:27 AM
As a Burkean liberal and paleo-librarian of longstanding, like many of you, The Audit has long understood that the Chicago... More
Our Score: Murdoch 2 - Journalism 0
No Ingrassia book, Varadarajan quits as readers learn to play by Austrialian rules
By Dean Starkman Sep 18, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Kudos to Keith J. Kelly of News Corp.'s New York Post who has more scoops this week. He says Larry... More
Greenspan, Iraq, Oil. How’s that again?
The WSJ and NYT underplay Greenspan role as “behind-the-scenes advocate” for invading Iraq. Woodward and Post get it right.
By Dean Starkman Sep 17, 2007 at 10:21 AM
In the second-to-last paragraph of a story on page A3 Monday, The Wall Street Journal says Alan Greenspan was "himself... More
“The Insurance Hoax” and the Business Press
Bloomberg Markets’s latest cover story and a Times piece perform a valuable service; Forbes and WSJ editorialists blow key Katrina fact
By Dean Starkman Sep 12, 2007 at 12:05 PM
When applying for a grant last year from George Soros's Open Society Institute to report on the insurance industry's response... More
Down With The Conflict-of-Interest Police
Anonymice wrong again: It’s fine for former WSJ-current NYT editor to do a book on his old company
By Dean Starkman Sep 4, 2007 at 11:56 AM
The New York Post's well-sourced Keith J. Kelly published a good item last week saying that a book idea floated... More
Per Suits
The Journal works on Saturday
By Dean Starkman Aug 29, 2007 at 10:07 AM
People familiar with goings-on at The Wall Street Journal tell The New York Times that Wall Street's top watchdog is... More
The Subprime Mess From Mount Olympus
Why James Grant’s long view comes up short
By Dean Starkman Aug 27, 2007 at 03:35 PM
Who’s to blame? The human race, first and foremost. Well-intended public policy, second. And Wall Street, third — if... More
Recommended
An L.A. Times story on aging Holocaust survivors
By Dean Starkman Aug 23, 2007 at 10:19 AM
The Los Angeles Times has a poignant story today on research that shows how the long-supressed memories of Holocaust survivors... More
Prime and Subprime
The New York Times and Business Week led on subprime coverage. Others didn’t.
By Dean Starkman Aug 21, 2007 at 04:58 PM
The business press can always be counted on to explain in authoritative detail why we just lost a trillion dollars.... More
Dow Jones Down
The WSJ editorial page launches baseless attacks on its competitors’ motives—it will fit right in at News Corp.
By Dean Starkman Aug 13, 2007 at 10:45 AM
And so Dow Jones & Co., once the proud lion of financial news, goes down instead like a jackrabbit shot... More
Why the Dow Jones Vote Matters
It’s about the stories
By Dean Starkman Jul 30, 2007 at 04:33 PM
NEW YORK -- Last Nov. 14, 38-year-old Martin A. Siegel, one of Wall Street's leading investment bankers, was spending the... More
Don’t Listen to Searby
Or other Wall Street analysts about newspapers
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2007 at 12:46 PM
The New York Times Co. reported yesterday that its second-quarter earnings fell from the same period a year ago.... More
What the Bancrofts Owe Dow Jones
In return for a century of dividends, a “no” and a graceful exit
By Dean Starkman Jul 19, 2007 at 11:38 AM
It's on the Bancrofts now. That hard-bargaining Dow Jones & Co. board has agreed to sell the Bancroft's patrimony for... More
The Right Prescription in the Journal
The Wall Street Journal gives Big Pharma’s state house lobbying an MRI
By Dean Starkman Jul 13, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Kudos and a smart salute to Sarah Rubenstein and the WSJ for a tough and intelligent story on Big Pharma... More
Parsing the Anonymice at Dow Jones and the Journal
The Times lets unnamed “senior editors” and a “person close to Dow Jones management” nudge the Murdoch sale along
By Dean Starkman Jul 10, 2007 at 11:23 AM
This New York Times piece from Monday says an unnamed person connected to Dow Jones management and unnamed senior editors... More
Ottaway to Bancrofts: Resist the Murdoch Temptation
Former long time Dow Jones director and executive James Ottaway, whose family owns 6.2% of the company’s super-voting shares, opposes News Corp.’s bid for the company and urges the controlling family to do likewise.
By Dean Starkman Jul 9, 2007 at 10:45 AM
If Dow Jones & Co.'s board agrees to a sale to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., as seems likely, the transaction... More
Independence Day
No time for sunshine patriots at Dow Jones
By Dean Starkman Jul 3, 2007 at 03:21 PM
Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. —Tom Paine, The... More
Why News Corp. Can’t Cover the U.S. Business Story
It is the story
By Dean Starkman Jun 29, 2007 at 12:40 PM
The business press, I have to say, has done a terrific job vetting News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch as potential... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
