The News Corp. Scandal is a Triumph for Investigative Reporting

Expensive, time-consuming, risky, stressful—and indispensable

By Dean Starkman   Jul 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM

It got pretty lonely.... --Ian Katz, deputy editor of the Guardian on the News of the World Story CJR's... More

Chaos at Dow Jones is the Bancrofts’ Legacy

By Dean Starkman   Jul 15, 2011 at 10:18 PM

"I want you to do what's best for the company. Don’t you and the boys worry about dividends." —Jane... More

The Mirror’s Dodgy “9/11 Hacking” Story

A piece that triggers an FBI probe reports no actual hacking and its information is third-hand

By Dean Starkman   Jul 14, 2011 at 06:37 PM

In response to calls from Congress, the FBI has opened an investigation into whether News Corp. journalists hacked the... More

Forget Regulating the Press. Enforce the Law.

By Dean Starkman   Jul 13, 2011 at 09:55 AM

As Reuters has it: "The basic test of a decent police force is that it catches more criminals than... More

News Corp.: Barometer Rising

“Some of the activity clearly was illegal.”

By Dean Starkman   Jul 11, 2011 at 05:00 PM

Ryan Chittum already said Nick Davies and the Guardian have pulled off one of the greatest newspaper investigations of... More

Bad Parent

Reading The Wall Street Journal’s hamstrung coverage of its owner, News Corp.

By Dean Starkman   Jul 11, 2011 at 11:00 AM

It's been hard to watch The Wall Street Journal, still the global business-news leader, struggling with both hands tied behind... More

Accountability, News Corp. Style

Those with responsibility escape it

By Dean Starkman   Jul 8, 2011 at 08:52 AM

Behold, editors and reporters at The Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, Fox News, and, for that matter, the... More

Audit Notes: Those Pricey Reporters, Business Press Critique, Wolff’s Idealism, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Apr 29, 2011 at 02:51 PM

--What's a story cost? Ken Doctor asks Clark Gilbert, CEO of the Deseret News's parent, who gives this breakdown:... More

What Washington Does All Day

HuffPo with a terrific story on the obscure interchange battle and its meaning

By Dean Starkman   Apr 29, 2011 at 11:55 AM

David Brooks says correctly that not enough Washington reporters break away from the pack and report on how the... More

When No One Cared About Moody’s and S&P’s Opinions

They operated on a journalism model, and no one listened

By Dean Starkman   Apr 28, 2011 at 02:24 PM

Does it rankle you that when S&P or Moody's issues a credit warning on, say, Japanese debt, not to mention... More

“The News Was That It Happened”

Bernanke presser was good and right

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 05:40 PM

I wish that was an original thought, but Randall Forsyth of Barron's made the apt observation on the post-game... More

Ask Bernanke About This, Too

Depression-era levels of black unemployment in some cities, well-documented in HuffPo

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM

This morning's strong Huffington Post piece on black-unemployment is a useful clip to print out and carry to the... More

Whither Twitter?

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 08:44 AM

What does it mean if Mark Zuckerberg doesn't obsess about you anymore? Fortune's story from last week on Twitter's... More

Ohio’s Lost Decade

Dayton paper shines light on a devastating job and income losses.

By Dean Starkman   Apr 25, 2011 at 05:52 PM

Look what's happened to payrolls in Montgomery County, Ohio, in the last decade: Annual private payrolls dropped about $3... More

Securities Star Chambers

By Dean Starkman   Apr 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM

Gretchen Morgenson sees hope in a recent arbitration case that, incredibly, found in favor of actual human beings against... More

The Pulitzers and The Wall Street Journal

Where to find the big one

By Dean Starkman   Apr 19, 2011 at 11:40 AM

Reading The Wall Street Journal’s “What They Know” series on Internet (un)privacy last year, I thought, this has “Pulitzer” written... More

WSJ Helps Keep It Real on Inflation

By Dean Starkman   Feb 18, 2011 at 10:23 AM

Jon Hilsenrath and Justin Lahart do well to pinpoint exactly what we need to worry about in the inflation... More

Audit Notes: Goldman’s Marks, Taibbi, Dakota Tea, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2011 at 04:23 PM

I like Bill Cohan's clearly written column explaining how Goldman marked its mortgage assets lower than everyone else, then... More

What Dimon, Cutler Knew About Madoff

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2011 at 10:51 AM

The WSJ has a piece this morning advancing our knowledge about what Jamie Dimon knew about the Madoff fraud.... More

Best of 2010: Felix Salmon

Highlights from CJR’s newest Peterson Fellow

By Dean Starkman   Dec 30, 2010 at 08:50 AM

Salvaging the FCIC: The primer offered by Republicans members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission is essentially 5,400 words... More