Best of 2010: Dean Starkman

CJR’s Kingsford Capital Fellow picks his top stories of the year

By Dean Starkman   Dec 28, 2010 at 09:23 AM

The Hamster Wheel. Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere. The Hamster Wheel isn’t speed; it’s... More

The Felix Thing

Concerns from a friend about our new blogger

By Dean Starkman   Nov 18, 2010 at 11:36 AM

We’ve gotten a couple of private notes expressing concern about our naming Felix Salmon as our new Peterson Fellow to... More

Leakapalooza on the Hill

Public relations bends this morning’s banking committee previews

By Dean Starkman   Nov 16, 2010 at 12:45 PM

Bank of America previewed and helped to soften its executives' planned apology before Congress today by letting the Times... More

A Biovail/60 Minutes Coda

By Dean Starkman   Nov 10, 2010 at 06:13 PM

Some stories just never go away. 60 Minutes's poor decision four years ago to portray a small pharmaceuticals company... More

Felix Salmon is the Columbia Journalism Review’s New Peterson Fellow

Will blog about media coverage of fiscal and economic policy

By Dean Starkman   Nov 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM

Felix Salmon, the finance blogger for Reuters and a leading voice on financial and economic issues, has been appointed the... More

A “Gate” Worthy of the Name—”ForeclosureGate”

By Dean Starkman   Oct 11, 2010 at 02:02 PM

The spectacle of the nation’s biggest banks—Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co, GMAC—halting foreclosures because of evidence of mass-scale... More

Seeking a Media Critic

By Dean Starkman   Sep 29, 2010 at 03:00 PM

CJR is looking for an experienced journalist to be its Peterson Fellow, a part-time job blogging about and critiquing media... More

Of Hamsters and Values

Reply to Felix Salmon

By Dean Starkman   Sep 27, 2010 at 11:13 AM

“The Hamster Wheel,” my argument against news organizations’ cranked-up productivity requirements for reporters, generated some nice discussion, including a post... More

The Hamster Wheel

Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere

By Dean Starkman   Sep 14, 2010 at 06:00 AM

“Newsrooms have shrunk by 25% in three years.” —Project for Excellence in Journalism, “State of the News Media 2010” “A... More

Susanne Craig leaving WSJ for the NYT

A blow to the Journal

By Dean Starkman   Aug 30, 2010 at 01:59 PM

Susanne Craig, one of The Wall Street Journal’s star Wall Street reporters, is moving to The New York Times, a... More

ProPublica and Planet Money Find the Keys to the Kingdom

By Dean Starkman   Aug 27, 2010 at 12:21 PM

Mark Pittman: Where is this demand coming from? How can you guys sell this issue in thirty minutes? Who the... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Drives BP Story, NYT is better on Wal-Mart, Insurance, Alabama, Da Bears

By Dean Starkman   Aug 26, 2010 at 07:00 PM

—The WSJ continues its strong BP coverage, a story on which it has simply excelled. Today my old paper examines... More

Fortune With a Stellar Probe into J&J

By Dean Starkman   Aug 26, 2010 at 10:47 AM

Now playing in Fortune, a honey of a probe into pharma icon Johnson & Johnson. Written by Mina Kimes, it... More

Audit Notes: WSJ on FASB; More on Auditors; the Demand Side, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 25, 2010 at 06:45 PM

—I'd like to know more about the rushed retirement of the chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which The... More

Bloggers at the Treasury

By Dean Starkman   Aug 25, 2010 at 02:32 PM

Last week, small groups of bloggers were ushered into the Treasury Department for quasi-off-the-record meetings with Tim Geithner and other... More

Audit Notes: Pittman Suit Advances, FT’s nifty banking graphic, Shareholder Activists Gain, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 24, 2010 at 06:30 PM

—The full federal appeals court in New York refused to reconsider a lower court ruling ordering the Fed's board of... More

In an SEC Filing Against Countrywide, a Press Win

By Dean Starkman   Aug 24, 2010 at 10:17 AM

The Wall Street Journal this morning reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission has now explicitly alleged what that newspaper... More

Audit Notes: High Priests, Feed the Meter, Correlation and Causation, Etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 03:10 PM

—Chrystia Freeland ruminates on business journalism's image problem in the Times Book Review, and argues against the good-guys-vs.-bad-guys construction of... More

Mortgage Fraud Still Tiny

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM

No matter what The Wall Street Journal says. Not to make too much of this. It's the summer doldrums, after... More

A Local Look at Small Business and Hard Money

Over the transom from the Audit/SABEW local business-press initiative

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 09:50 AM

As some Audit readers know, we’ve started a push with the Society of American Business Editors and Writers to try... More