The Winkler Way—Okay?

With Bloomberg News at a crossroads, an audience with its maximum leader

By Dean Starkman   Jun 3, 2008 at 11:30 AM

I am deep inside Bloomberg LP’s global headquarters, the Lexington Avenue office of the financial-information giant. With its post-modernist design—sweeping... More

Worse Than It Seems

Drilling down to the rotten foundation of the economic crisis

By Dean Starkman   May 27, 2008 at 09:00 AM

With the economy apparently already in recession, gas prices near record levels, food prices rising, and inflation generally gaining momentum,... More

60 Minutes’s Biovail Trainwreck (cont.)

A news magazine’s corporate “victim” pleads guilty

By Dean Starkman   May 22, 2008 at 10:05 AM

Last month, we wrote how 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl had botched a business story by using, of all companies,... More

WSJ’s Committee of the Absurd

Waiting for a complaint that will never come

By Dean Starkman   May 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM

I see The Wall Street Journal’s Special Committee has given itself a new name, or at least tried to define... More

The Anglo-ization of The Wall Street Journal

A struggle over the editor was about much more than turf

By Dean Starkman   May 8, 2008 at 01:16 PM

LAKE JACKSON, Texas -- When Lisa Kelly learned she had leukemia in late 2006, her doctor advised her to... More

Little Buttercup

The Bancroft’s opera singer/News Corp. director is “unavailable for comment”

By Dean Starkman   May 1, 2008 at 03:00 PM

And what of the opera singer? You remember: Natalie Bancroft, the twenty-something aspiring diva who wound up on News Corp.’s... More

WSJ committee Must Prove Its Mettle

It gets benefit of doubt, but now it’s time to fight

By Dean Starkman   Apr 30, 2008 at 11:52 AM

At a certain point, tragedy turns into farce, and we are getting awfully close to clown-car territory at The Wall... More

The WSJ’s Little Committee That Failed…

To protect the paper’s editorial independence

By Dean Starkman   Apr 24, 2008 at 02:47 PM

So much for the editorial side agreement that was supposed to protect The Wall Street Journal’s editorial independence from News... More

Brauchli’s Exit Is…

The end of the beginning of the end of what made the Journal special

By Dean Starkman   Apr 22, 2008 at 12:26 PM

The abrupt resignation of Marcus Brauchli as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal is surprising even to those of... More

Open Letter to Les Moonves

Don’t pay Couric’s successor $15 million; invest in journalists instead

By Dean Starkman   Apr 16, 2008 at 12:30 PM

If nothing else, Katie Couric’s earlier-than-expected departure from the CBS Evening News should call into question the superstar anchor system... More

Congress and the Press—Together Again

Oversight helps the business press, too

By Dean Starkman   Apr 14, 2008 at 08:31 AM

What a difference Congressional oversight makes—for the business press, if nothing else. The last two weeks, the financial (and front)... More

Audit Mailbag: ‘Stop the Class Warfare’

So says an editor; The Journal’s use of a housing stat sparks a squabble; we are praised, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Apr 9, 2008 at 12:54 PM

The Audit sometimes gets interesting mail from readers, and from time to time we’ll be posting some of it in... More

Pulitzers A Triumph For Investigations

Nothing like this on a blog

By Dean Starkman   Apr 8, 2008 at 12:23 PM

Army officials say they "started an aggressive campaign to deal with the mice infestation" last October and that the problem... More

Stahled

By Dean Starkman   Mar 31, 2008 at 01:03 PM

We don’t mean to pick on Lesley Stahl, in particular, but that Al Gore piece last night on 60 Minutes... More

60 Minutes Blows Biovail Story

SEC sues drug maker Lesley Stahl defended

By Dean Starkman   Mar 26, 2008 at 11:08 PM

The Securities and Exchange Commission sued a Canadian drug maker this week—and in the process blew apart the premise of... More

In the Mad Money Swamp

What part of “Bear Stearns is fine” don’t you understand?

By Dean Starkman   Mar 24, 2008 at 02:12 PM

"Bear Stearns is fine,"—Jim Cramer, on CNBC’s Mad Money, March 11. The Mad Money swamp beckons. The Audit cannot resist... More

The Other Side of Schadenfreude

Searching for a non-Wall Street perspective on Spitzer’s fall

By Dean Starkman   Mar 19, 2008 at 01:38 PM

Who remembers the schadenfreude? It was only a week ago—it feels like another era— that financial news publications rushed to... More

Another Baseless Screed

As will most press-bias rants, Strassel’s piece is hollow

By Dean Starkman   Mar 13, 2008 at 05:27 PM

“Many reporters built careers on the prosecutor’s leaks intended to bully innocent people” - Kimberly A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal... More

Red Ink Rising

How the press missed a sea change in the credit-card industry

By Dean Starkman   Mar 13, 2008 at 09:00 AM

One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in... More

Eakes!

Forbes’s flawed probe of a prescient consumer advocate

By Dean Starkman   Mar 12, 2008 at 09:46 AM

Forbes readers will be forgiven their confusion after reading a recent profile of Martin Eakes, a leading anti-predatory-lending crusader. Headlined... More