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

Journal Remains Citi Scoop Central

By Dean Starkman   Jun 5, 2009 at 07:48 AM

Ryan Chittum has now left the undisclosed location in the D.C. area (Langley) where he works to go on vacation.... More

The List

What the business press did (and didn’t do) while the financial crisis was brewing

By Dean Starkman   May 6, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Welcome to the List, a comprehensive catalog of relevant stories produced by major business-news outlets on the lending industry and... More

No Pulitzers, But Here’s an Audie

Financial news is shut out on journalism’s big day

By Dean Starkman   Apr 21, 2009 at 01:45 PM

We don’t have anything to do with Pulitzers here at the Columbia Journalism Review, other than bask in their reflected... More

Speedy Kills

A new Journal edict to employees will hurt the paper

By Dean Starkman   Mar 23, 2009 at 03:58 PM

Back in the summer of 2007, when the world was a cartoon version of today and Dow Jones & Co.... More

Listening to Kilgore

In a new biography, the journalism pioneer has something to tell us; will we hear him?

By Dean Starkman   Mar 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM

Barney Kilgore, the inventor of the modern Wall Street Journal and, in important respects, the best of America journalism as... More

Ansberry’s Grim Tales of the Non-Retired

By Dean Starkman   Feb 23, 2009 at 02:49 PM

I suspect I'm not the only one who read this WSJ story about workers in their 70s and 80s scuffling... More

A Nice Get On Stanford From the Chronicle

By Dean Starkman   Feb 23, 2009 at 02:44 PM

This Houston Chronicle story from last week contains an interesting interview with a pair of ex-employees, who describe how... More

NYT on WSJ

By Dean Starkman   Feb 23, 2009 at 08:54 AM

The New York Times does a nice job keeping an eye on its downtown rival this morning, reporting interesting details... More

WSJ Widens Lead On Citi

By Dean Starkman   Feb 23, 2009 at 07:55 AM

The Journal breaks the news that the erstwhile subprime leader is asking the government for more help with an idea... More

FOIA Score: Fox 1 - Bailout Secrecy 0

FBN chalks up key win in documents case

By Dean Starkman   Feb 20, 2009 at 03:16 PM

Fox Business News scored an important victory in the WOBS (War On Bailout Secrecy), when a federal judge in Manhattan... More

Happy Presidents Day

By Dean Starkman   Feb 16, 2009 at 07:41 AM

Ryan Chittum is off touring the Lincoln and Washington monuments in search of answers to the great economic questions of... More

Eisinger on Wilke

A Portfolio editor defends a former WSJ colleague

By Dean Starkman   Feb 13, 2009 at 03:39 PM

Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos created a stir in journalism circles last week when he testified that he approached one of... More

Attention Is Paid

Fortune’s fine unemployment cover

By Dean Starkman   Feb 11, 2009 at 01:25 PM

Sometimes it’s better just to keep it simple, and in that spirit I give Fortune credit for profiling several unemployed... More

The Journal’s Citi Scoop—Don’t Bet Against It

Having learned a lesson, I certainly won’t

By Dean Starkman   Feb 3, 2009 at 01:57 PM

The WSJ's David Enrich and colleagues Matthew Futterman and Damian Paletta uncork another valuable scoop from deep inside Citigroup's boardroom... More