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Bloomberg Steps Up
Wire service sues Fed for bailout transparency
By Dean Starkman Nov 7, 2008 at 02:18 PM
This story crossed Bloomberg's wire just before noon today: BLOOMBERG NEWS SUES FED TO FORCE DISCLOSURE OF LOAN COLLATERAL There’s... More
Goldman’s Backdoor Bailout
A call for transparency in the taxpayer rescue of Wall Street
By Dean Starkman Nov 4, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Last week, I wrote that the lack of disclosure surrounding the American International Group bailout had put The New York... More
Goldman’s Risk: Somewhere Between Zero and $20 Billion
Contradictory NYT, Bloomberg stories show need for bailout transparency
By Dean Starkman Oct 29, 2008 at 03:01 PM
Coverage of Goldman Sachs has perplexed me throughout the crisis. I’d still like to know, for instance, which subprime lenders... More
Lupica Waves at One
Better work on stadium financing, please
By Dean Starkman Oct 24, 2008 at 04:48 PM
Sports columnists aren’t required to read balance sheets or anything, but surely Mike Lupica can do better than this lazy... More
Frankly, Goldman, What About the CDOs?
The Times misses the big question on Goldman
By Dean Starkman Oct 20, 2008 at 02:42 PM
A lengthy New York Times piece on the heavy involvement of Goldman Sachs alumni in the government apparatus in charge... More
Transparency, Regulation and …
Rapoport’s three-step plan for restoring confidence
By Dean Starkman Oct 17, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Most readers don’t get to see newswire copy, which is available only to subscribers at a price we can’t afford.... More
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
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
