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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
“I Got Screwed Up”
BusinessWeek’s Gene Marcial says his sources have no conflicts—but they often do
By Dean Starkman Aug 11, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Gene Marcial, the longtime writer of BusinessWeek’s “Inside Wall Street” column, is a business-press institution. For more than two decades,... More
Opening Bell: Are So/Are Not
…in a recession; yes, and there’s worse to come; in the vomitorium; on the bright side etc.
By Dean Starkman Aug 1, 2008 at 08:14 AM
A lot of people express frustration with “are-we or aren’t-we” economic stories, like the one this morning by The New... More
Opening Bell: One Miillioon Doollllars
Do auction-rate probes rate? Disney’s surprise; blaming mom, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 31, 2008 at 08:31 AM
I wonder sometimes about our priorities over here in the business space. Authorities and their chroniclers in the business press... More
Opening Bell: Gloom, Doom
Euro consumers pessimistic; profits to fall further; trade talks collapse. Hmm.
By Dean Starkman Jul 30, 2008 at 08:25 AM
Business is cyclical and so is business news, but even so it’s amazing how universally bad the news is across... More
Opening Bell: Marked to Market
The WSJ shines on Merrill’s stunner; British-Spanish air merger; disconnected from Alcatel, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 29, 2008 at 08:05 AM
Twenty-two cents. We now know the price of those collateralized debt obligations backed by loans foisted by Ameriquest and other... More
The Editor and the Architect
Time featured an editor’s husband, but didn’t tell readers
By Dean Starkman Jul 28, 2008 at 02:31 PM
A splashy new show at the Museum of Modern Art puts a spotlight on a three-year-old story in Time and... More
Opening Bell: Summer Break
A disaster-free Monday; KKR goes public; hope for newspapers
By Dean Starkman Jul 28, 2008 at 08:03 AM
A nice slow start to the week, financial disaster-wise, as no big investment bank announced a major writedown, no bad... More
The Journal’s Many Anonymice
And why Jack Shafer needs a better mousetrap
By Dean Starkman Jul 16, 2008 at 01:04 PM
Our crony in criticism, Slate’s Jack Shafer, stumbles this morning in an otherwise interesting discussion about which major media outlets... More
The Answer Man?
Good luck, Marcus. You’ll need it.
By Dean Starkman Jul 8, 2008 at 05:57 PM
Now that The Washington Post has chosen Marcus Brauchli over Phil Bennett to be its new executive editor, I hope... More
Fact Fight!
Insurers make “error” allegations vs. Bloomberg News—nick Deadline Club
By Dean Starkman Jul 8, 2008 at 12:00 PM
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. -- John Dewey A big Bloomberg News... More
Brauchli’s Baggage
What he would carry to The Washington Post
By Dean Starkman Jun 25, 2008 at 11:29 AM
The day will come when the next executive editor of The Washington Post will have to choose between the easy... More
The WSJ Edit Page and the Mortgage Industry
Does it really expect us to forget what it wrote?
By Dean Starkman Jun 20, 2008 at 02:06 PM
Being a Wall Street Journal editorial writer means never having to say you’re sorry. Those literary lions of Liberty Street... More
Don’t Panic
A media consultant on the future of newspapers
By Dean Starkman Jun 20, 2008 at 11:13 AM
From time to time, The Audit will interview thought leaders about both financial journalism and the finances of journalism. John... More
Turning Point: Middle Class Under Seige
Remember, it’s the policies, not the market’s “unseen hand”
By Dean Starkman Jun 11, 2008 at 09:00 AM
This is part five of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election’s general campaign. Links to the... 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.
