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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
Investors vs. the Public
Why the business press should focus on the latter
By Dean Starkman Sep 17, 2009 at 05:02 PM
Bloomberg posts interesting results of a poll saying that investors and the general public see Obama's economic performance very differently.... More
Anticipating Peter Goodman’s New Book
By Dean Starkman Sep 16, 2009 at 05:53 PM
If this excerpt is any indication, Past Due, a new book by New York Times economics writer Peter S. Goodman... More
Plagiarism Follies at the Courant
TribCo unit fumbles a scandal
By Dean Starkman Sep 8, 2009 at 03:53 PM
On the subject of newspapers chewing their own legs off, the Hartford Courant, is in the process of doing... More
Gannett Spins the Hamster Wheel
By Dean Starkman Aug 31, 2009 at 05:09 PM
It is disturbing, to say the least, to see American newspapers chewing their own legs off as they try to... More
A Needless Ethical Slip
By Dean Starkman Aug 28, 2009 at 10:59 AM
The WSJ’s current ethical snafu of hiring the head of a global PR giant to write a column, even on... More
Brill Rakes Muck in NYC Schools
Fine urban-affairs reporting in the New Yorker. More please.
By Dean Starkman Aug 27, 2009 at 05:30 PM
Steven Brill’s New Yorker story on the quagmire that is the New York City school system is an example of... More
Final Blow to a 60 Minutes story
By Dean Starkman Aug 21, 2009 at 09:25 AM
As Dealbook reports, a New Jersey judge threw out a lawsuit filed by Canadian drugmaker Biovail Corp. against a hedge... More
Now We’re Blaming Lending Laws?
The WSJ tries—and fails—to tie strict laws to slow growth
By Dean Starkman Aug 18, 2009 at 04:30 PM
The WSJ had an interesting story on how Vermont's strict lending laws have kept foreclosures down. But it goes off... More
Don’t Dismiss Taibbi
What the mainstream press can learn from a Goldman takedown
By Dean Starkman Aug 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Mainstream financial journalism is doing its level, eye-rolling, heavy-sighing best to stuff Matt Taibbi back into the alt-press hole he... More
When Financial Media Blogs Collide
Competing views of journalism emerge
By Dean Starkman Jul 20, 2009 at 12:43 PM
As Ryan Chittum noted on Saturday, Yvette Kantrow, a columnist and editor with The Deal, a Wall Street trade publication... More
Journalism Scandal at News Corp
By Dean Starkman Jul 10, 2009 at 02:22 AM
While it's too early to draw conclusions, anyone interested in what goes on at the owner the nation's leading financial... More
“All gerbils die, and when they do, hardly anybody really gives a damn.”
By Dean Starkman Jun 22, 2009 at 03:32 PM
Not bad for a graduation speech. Doug Bates, an editorial writer at the Oregonian, gave University of Oregon J-School grads... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
