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Audit Notes: more NOLA rumblings, Journatic, well-squawked
A new buyer emerges in New Orleans, Quick and Sorkin did good, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2012 at 11:36 PM
—Can we agree at this point that Advance Publications’s attempt to sell its plans for dramatic newsroom cuts and... More
A Washington reporter’s review of Barofsky’s book is unintentionally revealing
Shield’s up!
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Jackie Calmes's review of Neil Barofsky’s new book, Bailout, to me, says so much more about Washington press culture... More
Audit Notes: Macabre probe, Wall Street lethargy, linkless hype busters, ‘Chairman of the Fed,’ etc.
A compelling cross-border probe into the body parts business
By Dean Starkman Jul 25, 2012 at 11:04 PM
“When my daughter-in-law touched it, she said that his foot was empty.” That’s right. Someone stole the inside... More
A WSJ ‘A-hed’ covers the same topic twice
Tapping on the glass of a barometer for quality
By Dean Starkman Jul 25, 2012 at 08:20 AM
Back when News Corp. took over Dow Jones & Co., which some of us didn’t think was a particularly... More
Audit Notes: UK edition
On hack-gate and the paper that broke it open
By Dean Starkman Jul 24, 2012 at 04:27 PM
Make no mistake about it: the criminal charges unveiled yesterday against former top News Corp. officials mark a major... More
Audit Notes: NOLA stirrings, Libor’s victim, Honda-driving billionaire, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 23, 2012 at 06:25 PM
—With the news market in New Orleans suddenly up for grabs—thanks to Advance Publications's decision to slash the newsroom... More
Introducing Best Business Writing 2012
By Dean Starkman Jun 13, 2012 at 04:00 PM
Columbia Journalism Review Books has just published Best Business Writing 2012, featuring pieces by Paul Krugman, Martin Wolf, Matt Taibbi,... More
The reporter who saw it coming
Mike Hudson thought he was merely exposing injustice, but he also was unearthing the roots of a global financial meltdown
By Dean Starkman May 3, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Mike Hudson began reporting on the subprime mortgage business in the early 1990s when it was still a marginal,... More
The reporter who saw it coming
Mike Hudson thought he was merely exposing injustice, but he also was unearthing the roots of a global financial meltdown
By Dean Starkman Apr 22, 2012 at 03:33 PM
Mike Hudson began reporting on the subprime mortgage business in the early 1990s when it was still a marginal,... More
The Value of Prizes
By Dean Starkman Apr 16, 2012 at 09:55 PM
I watched the Pulitzer announcements for the first time this afternoon, just upstairs in the World Room—and, well, it’s a... More
What McClure Said: “The Story is the Thing”
Clearing space for the agenda-setting narrative in digital journalism
By Dean Starkman Apr 3, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Editor's note: CJR’s Dean Starkman was invited to give the opening keynote speech at this year’s Narrative Arc Conference, at... More
A Narrowed Gaze
How the business press forgot the rest of us
By Dean Starkman Jan 9, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Steve Lipin didn’t fit the profile of a transformative media figure when he took over the mergers-and-acquisitions beat for... More
Best of 2011: Dean Starkman
The Audit’s head honcho picks his top CJR stories from the past year
By Dean Starkman Dec 27, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Confidence Game: The limited vision of the news gurus: The landmark 8,000-word essay that upended the future-of-news debate. The Hole... More
The Hole In FON Theory
Continuing the discussion about the future of news with Clay Shirky
By Dean Starkman Dec 21, 2011 at 11:00 AM
I thank Clay Shirky and other posters for their responses to “Confidence Game: the limited vision of the news... More
It’s About the Stories
A response to Emily Bell
By Dean Starkman Nov 10, 2011 at 12:02 PM
I thank Emily for her critique of "Confidence Game." Alysia Santo is pulling together other responses, and I’ll get... More
Confidence Game
The limited vision of the news gurus
By Dean Starkman Nov 8, 2011 at 06:00 AM
“The question that mass amateurization poses to traditional media is ‘What happens when the costs of reproduction and distribution go... More
Best Business Writing, 2012: Send Us Your Favorites
By Dean Starkman Sep 12, 2011 at 04:41 PM
Hey, Internet: A team at the Columbia Journalism Review—yours truly, Dean Starkman, Ryan Chittum, Martha Hamilton, ex-of the WaPo and... More
A Heavy Blow to The Wall Street Journal
An editor’s departure is a big deal
By Dean Starkman Sep 7, 2011 at 06:47 PM
Anyone who thinks the departure of Alix M. Freedman, the WSJ’s Page One editor, a twenty-seven-year Journal mainstay, and winner... More
No, Actually, News of the World Won’t Happen Here
By Dean Starkman Jul 25, 2011 at 11:11 AM
In a recent spasm of radio and TV interviews about #hackgate the last couple weeks, everyone wanted to know whether... More
The Audit on NPR
Talking about Murdochs, News Corp., NotW, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 19, 2011 at 06:24 PM
I'm on "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook on NPR's Boston affiliate, WBUR, talking Murdoch and News Corp., with Sarah... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
