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Pitiful
Murdoch in the sewer
By Dean Starkman Jun 26, 2007 at 10:20 AM
This News Corp. statement speaks for itself. It comes near the beginning of the second day of The New York... More
Don’t Miss The Post Cheney Series
“The Angler” is great and a pleasure to read.
By Dean Starkman Jun 25, 2007 at 12:29 PM
The Washington Post series, by Bart Gellman (The Audit's onetime officemate, I'm proud to say) and Jo Becker, so far... More
The Audit Recommends…
The Times on Murdoch; The New Yorker on Murdoch; The WSJ on Murdoch and the Bear Stearns bailout;Lawrence Summers’s Op-Ed in the FT.
By Dean Starkman Jun 25, 2007 at 11:01 AM
Business-press readers get even more reasons to oppose a Dow Jones sale to News Corp. from The New Yorker's rundown... More
Agency Problems at Dow Jones and the WSJ
Unusual job guarantees would put top Journal editors in a tight spot.
By Dean Starkman Jun 21, 2007 at 04:03 PM
You can't tell the players without a scorecard, and today The Audit will spell out where the economic interests of... More
Secular vs. Cyclical
Shafer is wrong about Times piece
By Dean Starkman Jun 19, 2007 at 11:46 AM
Jack Shafer finds a page one piece in Sunday's New York Times about a slowdown in online retail sales to... More
Changes at the Journal
The Audit’s interpretation
By Dean Starkman Jun 14, 2007 at 01:40 PM
The Wall Street Journal's new managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, made some changes in the newsroom that are bold if nothing... More
The WSJ Story is Fine, But…
What’s missing from coverage of the insurance “industry”
By Dean Starkman Jun 13, 2007 at 11:41 AM
The WSJ did a story last week on the explosive growth of state-owned insurers of last resort. This is a... More
Samuelson says there’s nothing to be done
Warns to avoid “class warfare”
By Dean Starkman Jun 7, 2007 at 12:27 PM
The Washington Post's Robert Samuelson today weighs in with an informed column on cultural changes affecting income inequality. His conclusion:... More
Loss of Wartzman column reveals LAT’s biz coverage priorities
The Reader Speaks
By Dean Starkman Jun 6, 2007 at 04:11 PM
One of The Audit's numerous sources in the business press passes along the following letter by Peter Dreier, a politics... More
How to Kill a Story
Murdoch would kill the Journal’s journalism
By Dean Starkman Jun 5, 2007 at 10:31 AM
How do you kill a story? It must be hard, right? All reporters know the truth: any monkey can do... More
Great story; a concern and a thought
The Bancrofts’ lawyer is clearly conflicted; spell out where the CEO stands
By Dean Starkman Jun 4, 2007 at 10:32 AM
Business-press readers and family therapy buffs alike will get a kick out The Wall Street Journal's Saturday story on discussions... More
Financial Times Bears Down
The British Peach combines sophistication and street smarts in a nice Page One piece.
By Dean Starkman Jun 1, 2007 at 11:37 AM
The Audit can't resist the two-column, paper-leading story (badly underplayed on the Web) by Saskia Scholtes, who got hold of... More
DJ’s unsuitable suitors
Bancrofts in a tight spot
By Dean Starkman Jun 1, 2007 at 10:13 AM
The news that Dow Jones & Co.'s controlling Bancroft family will consider selling the company, including to Rupert Murdoch's News... More
A word about leadership
And one reason Dow Jones lost the war
By Dean Starkman May 31, 2007 at 01:19 PM
Warren H. Phillips, a former longtime CEO of Dow Jones & Co., wrote a letter to the New York Times's... More
Of Lepers and Lou Dobbs
Dobbs has a leprosy problem
By Dean Starkman May 30, 2007 at 10:30 AM
60 Minutes couldn't do it. Neither could NPR. Well, hats off to The Times for running Dobbs to ground on... More
FT on DJ
Don’t do us any favors
By Dean Starkman May 23, 2007 at 11:45 AM
We suspect the Financial Times has an advantage covering the Bancrofts--maybe everyone went to the same schools, or something--but... More
A Good One on Drug Trials
Big Pharma
By Dean Starkman May 23, 2007 at 11:20 AM
Barry Meier, one The Audit's favorites, has an excellent piece on today's New York Times business cover about a debate... More
The Tragedy of Peter Kann
A devoted son of Dow Jones brings down the company.
By Dean Starkman May 21, 2007 at 07:04 AM
We believe facts are facts and that they are ascertainable through honest, open-minded and diligent reporting. We thus believe that... More
What’s Good For the Bancrofts Is Bad for the Journal
The Wall Street Journal’s parent has been paying outsized cash dividends, to the primary benefit of the controlling Bancroft family, instead of reinvesting to keep the company independent of Murdoch and other predators.
By Dean Starkman May 10, 2007 at 02:44 PM
“Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson has announced an ambitious pilot program to radically reshape the welfare system in his state. If... More
Steiger Sat On What?!
Rupert Murdoch’s “reassuring” e-mail about a live offer for the Wall Street Journal’s parent creates a journalistic fiasco. Thanks, Rupert. We feel better already.
By Dean Starkman May 8, 2007 at 04:49 PM
Well, we can stop wondering whether The Wall Street Journal would allow Rupert Murdoch to screw up its editorial judgment.... 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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
