WaPo Boosts 401(k)s for No Good Reason

By Dean Starkman   Oct 8, 2009 at 10:42 AM

A main beef I have with personal finance reporting—beyond its constant purveying of banalities ("diversify!";"buy and hold!")—is that it generally... More

Audit Interview: The FT’s Lionel Barber

“We got a piece of the puzzle [but] we don’t tend to go grassroots up. There’s an important lesson for all of us.”

By Dean Starkman   Oct 8, 2009 at 08:29 AM

Among the discomfiting changes sweeping through the financial news business in the U.S. has been the rising influence of what... More

WSJ Is Good on Medical Transparency

By Dean Starkman   Oct 6, 2009 at 09:08 AM

How's that expression go?—"Sunlight is the best disinfectant." The Journal's Thomas M. Burton this morning shows Louis Brandeis's adage is... More

A Good Food-Safety Investigation from the Times

By Dean Starkman   Oct 5, 2009 at 09:25 AM

Credit is due the Times and veteran investigative reporter Michael Moss for a painstaking and stomach-turning account yesterday of the... More

Of Buts and Bloomberg News

By Dean Starkman   Oct 2, 2009 at 11:04 AM

Bloomberg News top editor Matt Winkler raised eyebrows around the newswire/data provider the other week with his op-ed in The... More

Urban-Affairs Reporting in the WSJ

By Dean Starkman   Oct 1, 2009 at 10:14 AM

The Journal deserves a nod for a good inside-the-paper story on Detroit public schools' using free food, celebrity visits and... More

More Journalism Green Shoots

By Dean Starkman   Sep 25, 2009 at 12:28 PM

The news this morning of a $5 million slug of money for a new non-profit local news organization in the... More

Harper’s Long Miss on AIG

By Dean Starkman   Sep 25, 2009 at 09:20 AM

I was standing at the 116th Street subway stop looking for something to read when a trained started to pull... More

James Grant’s Twaddle on Detroit

By Dean Starkman   Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38 AM

Looking over the vast landscape of foreclosures in New York City graphically illustrated at the Queens Museum of Art show... More

Leonhardt’s Deft Med Mal Treatment

By Dean Starkman   Sep 24, 2009 at 03:25 PM

Times's economics columnist David Leonhardt deserves a tip of the doctor's mirrors for delving into the messy business of separating... More

Bloomberg Further Hammers FDIC Credibility

By Dean Starkman   Sep 24, 2009 at 10:38 AM

Audit Interviewee Jon Weil, the Bloomberg finance columnist, has a good piece this morning noting that the bank regulator is... More

Go to Queens Museum, Get Mad

By Dean Starkman   Sep 24, 2009 at 09:03 AM

Business press practitioners and their readers in the New York area who are suffering from crisis fatigue have a few... More

Bloomberg Keeps Heat on FDIC

By Dean Starkman   Sep 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Yesterday, the Orange County Register banged away at bank regulators' bizarre six-year paralysis in the face of IndyMac's blatantly unsafe... More

Labor Gets a Word in Edgewise

By Dean Starkman   Sep 23, 2009 at 09:46 AM

The Times gets credit this morning for initiating and prominently displaying a story on organized labor, or as I like... More

Muckraking 1, Banksters 0

By Dean Starkman   Sep 23, 2009 at 08:12 AM

The announcement yesterday by the Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase that they would end some of their most egregious... More

WSJ Correction: Allies Not “Roiled” After All

By Dean Starkman   Sep 22, 2009 at 06:00 PM

Reading Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, we are finding, requires some amount of Kremlinology. What is happening is visible for... More

O.C. Register Stays on IndyMac Madness

By Dean Starkman   Sep 22, 2009 at 09:19 AM

The Orange County Register's Mathew Padilla has an item about a newly released FDIC inspector general's report saying the agency's... More

McClatchy’s “Unconfirmed Reports” About Criminal Probes

By Dean Starkman   Sep 22, 2009 at 06:11 AM

McClatchy asks a darned good question in a recent news story: "Why haven't any Wall Street tycoons been sent to... More

The Observer Advances the Ball on BoA

By Dean Starkman   Sep 21, 2009 at 09:44 AM

Charlotte's Rick Rothacker scooped the world over the weekend with a story saying the FBI has been probing Bank of... More

Waiting for the Angelides Commission

By Dean Starkman   Sep 21, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Kudos to The New York Times edit page for dogging the poky progress of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the... More