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The Coming Credit Card Meltdown
BizWeek on the next crisis for the banks
By Dean Starkman Oct 16, 2008 at 11:20 AM
BusinessWeek takes a useful look at the next big problem in consumer credit. One word: plastic. The piece’s perspective is... More
Spitzer’s Ghost
The public record on lending hangs over the business press
By Dean Starkman Oct 14, 2008 at 09:28 AM
In 2002, Georgia passed an anti-predatory lending law that had all the usual provisions—it forbade deceptive practices in the disclosure... More
What She Said
A recommended WSJ op-ed
By Dean Starkman Oct 13, 2008 at 02:22 PM
A WSJ opinion piece today, “A Capitalist Manifesto,” strikes me as well-worth reading. True, the author, Judy Shelton, sets up... More
Un-Intel @ NY Magazine
Any editors out there?
By Dean Starkman Oct 1, 2008 at 05:35 PM
I thank New York Magazine and its Daily Intel blog for making me momentarily famous in the areas between Popover’s... More
Ouryay Eatbay Just Ewblay Upyay
Ten fundamentals for the business press now
By Dean Starkman Sep 29, 2008 at 02:52 PM
As a service to the business-news trade, The Audit would like to offer a few observations about the current financial... More
Debating a Catastrophe
Connecting the political and financial plot lines
By Dean Starkman Sep 26, 2008 at 05:19 PM
For months, the business pages and political pages felt so different in tone, content and intensity that reading them was... More
“Ailing” vs. “Embattled”
With its hand out to the government, Goldman gets a journalistic handout from the Times
By Dean Starkman Sep 25, 2008 at 06:07 PM
A front-page headline on Wednesday with an article about Warren E. Buffett’s plan to invest $5 billion in the Wall... More
Roundup: A Two-Sided Scandal
Don’t forget how this started; Times, Journal, others, on pricing the waste; Frank, Will, etc.
By Dean Starkman Sep 24, 2008 at 09:16 AM
One thing forgotten by the business press in the debate over the $700 billion bailout, I think, is that this... More
Audit Roundup: Context, Please
Bloomberg takes a stab; Ritholtz on point; the Times looks for outrage, etc.
By Dean Starkman Sep 23, 2008 at 09:32 AM
If I were a newspaper editor right now I’d be ordering more stories like this Bloomberg piece, which gropes for... More
Audit Roundup: Without Words
How to convey a disgrace; useful ideas from Krugman, Morgenson; WSJ edit page blames community groups, etc.
By Dean Starkman Sep 22, 2008 at 09:01 AM
The business press has done its usual thorough job of explaining the whos, whats and wherefores of this historic weekend,... More
Audit Roundup: Weil, Eisinger vs. White Noise
Wall Street things you don’t need to bone up on
By Dean Starkman Sep 19, 2008 at 08:21 AM
Readers who joined the business press conversation only recently must getting a headache by now. Wall Street is imploding, and... More
It Really Is That Bad
A Journal headline finally says it
By Dean Starkman Sep 18, 2008 at 11:42 AM
People ask me if the business press has acted responsibly in describing the panic currently consuming global financial institutions and... More
Public Policy Matters After All
Where’s the reporting on the laws that built Wall Street’s house of cards?
By Dean Starkman Sep 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM
I’m wondering if any other newspaper and business-press readers are curious about the degree to which public policy, including laws... More
Boiler Room
The business press is missing the crooked heart of the credit crisis
By Dean Starkman Sep 16, 2008 at 10:43 AM
“Mr. Howard made it clear to the mortgage broker that he could not read or write, but his loan application... More
Yes, but…
Reader: The business press, too, is implicated in the current credit calamity
By Dean Starkman Sep 15, 2008 at 01:15 PM
A reader responds to this morning's post of qualified business-press praise: Dear Dean, Some comments. First, now that the horse... More
The Language of Calamity
The business press finds its voice in covering Wall Street’s implosion
By Dean Starkman Sep 14, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Even casual business press readers by now know that what is happening on Wall Street is new, unusual, historic, unfamiliar,... More
Roanoke Chronicles (cont.)
Plain English needed at the Times
By Dean Starkman Sep 12, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Is it any wonder that newspapers are going the way of the Interstate Commerce Commission? Michael Stowe, managing editor of... More
Meanwhile, in Michigan
Voter disenfranchisement gets creative
By Dean Starkman Sep 11, 2008 at 03:34 PM
Original reporting is a beautiful thing, and so all journophiles should take heart at the local online “papers” springing up... More
Something’s Rotten in Roanoke
Times is silent on reassignment of reporter after local hospital pulls its ads
By Dean Starkman Sep 9, 2008 at 03:00 PM
The Roanoke Times is strangely silent about whether it reassigned a reporter at the behest of a big local business.... More
Wall Street Sank Freddie and Fannie
Coverage of the bailout could use a dose of recent history
By Dean Starkman Sep 8, 2008 at 01:17 PM
My only quibble with the gusher of stories this morning on the government’s takeover on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... 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?”
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
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.
