Mangling “Power Problem”

By Dean Starkman   Apr 19, 2010 at 05:53 PM

Heidi N. Moore, an ex-WSJ staffer and vocal defender of the business press, has been Twittering like mad to lambaste... More

The WSJ’s Pulitzer Shutout is Bad for the Country

By Dean Starkman   Apr 13, 2010 at 06:14 PM

As Alexander Cockburn theorized in a 1984 Wall Street Journal column, the Pulitzers are a kind of show business, a... More

The Price of Admission

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s debut and the limits of access journalism

By Dean Starkman   Mar 11, 2010 at 06:00 AM

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Medicaid, Rest Stops, Galbraith, Etc.

By Dean Starkman   Mar 5, 2010 at 04:58 PM

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities previews the upcoming congressional debate over whether to extend the federal support for... More

Stiglitz, Wolf, Pearlstein, Huffington: Media & Economics Conference, April 6

RSVP Now

By Dean Starkman   Mar 4, 2010 at 05:25 PM

A day-long conference on Columbia University's campus will explore the problems and opportunities posed by reporting on a financial... More

What’s a Toyota “Exclusive?” at This Point?

Bloomberg pushes the definition

By Dean Starkman   Feb 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM

What is an exclusive, anyway? This is more than journalism competition issue. As readers sort through the news gusher, it's... More

Audit Notes: An NYT Dud on Regulators; A Good Day for M&I; FT on AIG; HuffPo on Mortgages, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 18, 2010 at 07:28 PM

--Dean Baker is right to criticize the Times story this morning that reported on talks to set up a financial... More

As the Hamster Wheel Turns

As productivity demands soar, journalists need to talk

By Dean Starkman   Feb 18, 2010 at 08:38 AM

In a piece on growing discontent on The Associated Press’s business desk, Gawker reported that the desk has a deal... More

Audit Notes: Koblin Continues on Kouwe; Old Reformers; A good, quick WSJ probe; Charlie Moves Over, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2010 at 06:40 PM

-John Koblin continues to turn in strong work for the Observer on the Times Bizday plagiarism story, this time with... More

Threading the “News Analysis” Needle

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2010 at 08:44 AM

The lines between news and news analysis, and news analysis and opinion, are necessarily fuzzy. Most people would agree about... More

Audit Notes: NYO on an NYT Plagiarism Problem; Three Good Ones in the WSJ; plus Wolf

By Dean Starkman   Feb 16, 2010 at 07:16 PM

--John Koblin at the Observer broke an important story about apparent plagiarism involving Times business staffer Zachery Kouwes. A Times's... More

A Polk for Pittman

By Dean Starkman   Feb 16, 2010 at 04:41 PM

Long Island University announced the winners of the 2009 Polk Awards this morning, and we at The Audit want to... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg on the Financial Protection Agency; FT’s Volcker Get; Norris Gets Almost There; Greece as Bear Stearns, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 12, 2010 at 06:30 PM

--Bloomberg does a good job tracking the dimming prospects of a consumer finance protection agency, yet another indication, as far... More

The Times’s Last Goldman Story Mostly Held Up Fine

But it’s not a zero-sum game

By Dean Starkman   Feb 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM

Yesterday, I said Goldman had a minor but valid point in spokesman Lucas van Praag's unusual public response to last... More

A Good Counterintuitive Piece on an Ex-Goldmanite

By Dean Starkman   Feb 12, 2010 at 10:12 AM

There are a lot of reasons to like this Bloomberg profile of Gary Gensler. First, it's into the weeds of... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Day

By Dean Starkman   Feb 11, 2010 at 06:34 PM

It’s all-Bloomberg, all-day here on Audit Notes™ --Nobody can manipulate the data ocean in a Bloomberg machine like Bloomberg News,... More

The Times, Goldman and the SocGen Problem

The bank has minor, but valid point in tiff with the paper

By Dean Starkman   Feb 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM

The NYT’s Sunday story on the AIG-Goldman collateral fight didn’t break any major news, but it certainly added some useful... More

All Eyes On NHTSA

Press lessons here

By Dean Starkman   Feb 10, 2010 at 10:48 AM

The business press continues to turn in devastating reporting on Toyota’s problems and the parallel failures of its main regulator,... More

New Financial Sheriff in Town, Part III

Times highlights SEC’s latest crackdown—on an Estonian brokerage

By Dean Starkman   Feb 9, 2010 at 11:35 AM

The Times continues the business-press tradition of hailing new regulators as saviors from the previous bad regulators. "S.E.C. Enforcers Focus... More

The Wall Street End Game

By Dean Starkman   Feb 8, 2010 at 10:56 AM

Barry Ritholtz sees no new news in yesterday’s Times piece recreating the AIG/Goldman talks, which forced the insurer to hand... More