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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
A Pecora-Style Commission Will Help the Narrative
By Dean Starkman Jun 12, 2009 at 01:39 PM
This occurred to me while reading the extensive coverage leading up to, the live blogging of, the video, and next-day... More
Business Journalism Saves Planet
From near-certain disaster
By Dean Starkman Jun 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Bloomberg has a nice item showing the power of the business press for good. Or at least the power of... More
Attitude Adjustment
By Dean Starkman Jun 11, 2009 at 09:45 AM
Bloomberg's Jon Weil offers a helpful perspective on how to think about all these Wall Street goings on, such at... More
WSJ Flicks on Lights in a Wall Street Corner
By Dean Starkman Jun 11, 2009 at 08:32 AM
A terrific story in the Journal this morning shines a light on what the country's brightest minds do all day... More
Man on Wire
By Dean Starkman Jun 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM
I understand, of course, the American journalism convention to keep opinions out of news columns and to stick to verifiable... More
More Fed Coverage, Please
By Dean Starkman Jun 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM
The MSMs all have short items on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's unusal subpoena of the Federal... More
Language Matters at the Globe
By Dean Starkman Jun 9, 2009 at 04:30 PM
I wish The Wall Street Journal had taken better care in crafting the lede of its story on the Boston... More
“My Sources Say No”
By Dean Starkman Jun 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM
That's the answer I got when I asked Magic Eight Ball whether our beyond-worst-case financial catastrophe will result in effective... More
Settlement Closes the Book on a Nigerian Tale
By Dean Starkman Jun 9, 2009 at 08:35 AM
I, for one, enjoy a good civil trial. You never know what you might learn. The business papers this morning... More
Bloomberg With Nice Details on UBS Tax-Cheating Service
By Dean Starkman Jun 8, 2009 at 06:38 PM
A cool story from Bloomberg pries some nice details from the tax-avoidance case that for the last few years has... More
Guilty Pleasure
By Dean Starkman Jun 8, 2009 at 03:13 PM
I know it was last week's cover, but don't let my tardiness cause you to miss Steve Fishman's New York... More
When Mozilo Met Morgenson
By Dean Starkman Jun 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Before we get too far from the fraud charges the Securities and Exchange Commission filed against Angelo Mozilo last week,... More
The Sun, Times Follow the Subprime Muck
By Dean Starkman Jun 8, 2009 at 08:35 AM
The Baltimore Sun and New York Times recently gave some attention to under-reported social and class aspects of the mortgage... More
Learning Journalism Lessons of the Past
By Dean Starkman Jun 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM
The Times this morning continues strong recent press performance on the busted-and-bailed-out banking industry's Golem-like resilience and continued potency in... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
