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Advance’s forced march backwards
The Plain Dealer imposes draconian cuts in the name of an outdated strategy for newspapers
By Dean Starkman Jul 31, 2013 at 03:57 PM
Advance Publications's remorseless campaign to impose a free-online content model on its regional newspapers exacted another heavy toll with... More
Goldman swings, misses, at NYT’s commodities exposé
Bank and newspaper, at odds again
By Dean Starkman Jul 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
I had a hunch that David Kocieniewski's piece on Goldman Sachs's metals maneuvers would stand up in the face of... More
NYT exposé machine hums along (UPDATED)
Kocieniewski reveals Goldman’s commodity manipulations; one of a series
By Dean Starkman Jul 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Dave Kocieniewski's corker in yesterday's Times is just a gorgeous piece of work, as an investigation, a piece of writing,... More
On Koch vs. journalists: he said-she said
Washington Post says the Kochs are fighting the media, but not whether they have a leg to stand on
By Dean Starkman Jul 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's good to know, as Paul Farhi reports, that the Koch Brothers "use Web to take on media reports... More
A chat with Lionel Barber
The editor of the Financial Times on what it means to be “digital first” and other topics
By Dean Starkman Jul 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Lionel Barber has been the editor the Financial Times since 2005. On a visit to New York earlier this spring,... More
The Best Business Writing 2013
Introducing our second anthology of the top business journalism of the year
By Dean Starkman Jun 27, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Compiling the Best Business Writing series each year reliably brings the pleasures of the eclectic and unexpected. But it also... More
A new cross-border tax-haven database and its significance
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists pushes into new journalism territory
By Dean Starkman Jun 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists hit the mother lode when it published the first of its dozens of exposés... More
Tide goes out on News Corp.’s newspapers
The Times of London newsroom cuts staff as its parent company splits in two
By Dean Starkman Jun 12, 2013 at 06:55 AM
It's not a great sign that the Times of London is laying off 20 editorial staffers just as it parent... More
Nonprofits are still a drop in the news bucket
And there isn’t a growth story
By Dean Starkman Jun 10, 2013 at 02:55 PM
Yes, as Kira Goldenberg writes, the most remarkable finding of the big new Pew study on nonprofit news organizations... More
‘The future is medieval’
A discussion with the scholars behind the “Gutenberg Parenthesis,” a sweeping theory of digital—and journalism—transformation
By Dean Starkman Jun 7, 2013 at 08:05 AM
What follows is an interview and discussion I had in Odense, Denmark, with Thomas Pettitt and Lars Ole Sauerberg, two... More
Official Secrets of the Financial Crisis
Huge public money changing hands in deals that remain undisclosed; part of a widening shroud over government
By Dean Starkman Jun 4, 2013 at 07:05 AM
Jon Weil's column the other day was one you really did not want to miss and points to wider... More
Exclusive excerpts: ‘The Gestation Period of Llama (Or why I quit The Wall Street Journal)’
In an new essay, a former investigative reporter explains how a Murdoch-ized operation led her to leave journalism and reinvent herself
By Dean Starkman Jun 3, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Once, dissent was common in American newsrooms. Today, it's rare for reporters, or even former reporters, to speak up about... More
Those immobile newspaper companies
Only 22 percent of a big sample even offer mobile products
By Dean Starkman May 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM
One of the truisms of digital journalism, and one that happens to be true, is that mobile is a big... More
The importance of counting stories
Schiffrin and Fagan quantify weaknesses in coverage of the stimulus
By Dean Starkman Apr 30, 2013 at 03:10 PM
One of the cold, hard facts of media punditry is that no one can read everything—or should be expected... More
Wall Street Journal: time to look in the mirror
Its Pulitzer shutout reaches six years
By Dean Starkman Apr 17, 2013 at 11:04 AM
Stop me if you've heard this one: Old man goes to shul, prays: "Dear God, just once, let me... More
60 Minutes’s Chevron pollution story springs a leak
An on-camera expert recants in a court statement
By Dean Starkman Apr 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Three years ago, we weighed in on a bitter media dispute pitting Chevron against 60 Minutes over a piece... More
Newspaper revenue: good news, bad news
Mostly bad as revenue stops its free-fall but ads remain weak
By Dean Starkman Apr 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Newspaper Association of America takes some comfort, and with some reason, in the news that newspaper revenues declined... More
Investigative collaboration, cross-border edition
A landmark series on offshore tax havens from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
By Dean Starkman Apr 8, 2013 at 11:05 AM
A good sign that your investigation has hit the mark is when law enforcement agencies start demanding to see... More
Advance to nowhere
Newhouse-owned chain slogs forward with discredited free-news model, now in Cleveland
By Dean Starkman Apr 4, 2013 at 05:00 PM
Advance Publications's announcement today on the future of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was less dramatic than the one a year... More
Digital ads and grains of salt
Assessing recent claims
By Dean Starkman Apr 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Some data are better than no data, I suppose, but it always pays to be skeptical when companies disclose... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
