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What He Said
Wise words from the FT’s Martin Wolf
By Dean Starkman Dec 12, 2007 at 02:10 PM
An exceptionally wise column by Martin Wolf in this morning’s Financial Times strikes me as important for even casual business-press... More
Murdoch and that Lying Thing
Will be a problem for the Journal
By Dean Starkman Dec 7, 2007 at 03:02 PM
He said that he admired the Dow Jones chief executive, Richard F. Zannino, and the newly appointed top editor,... More
Incorrect
A bad mistake yields an inadequate correction, and lessons for the Journal
By Dean Starkman Dec 6, 2007 at 04:30 PM
Readers know errors are a fact of newspaper life, and business-press readers are no different. Errors are to be regretted,... More
Stilettos Are The Rage
For WSJ, L’Affaire Judith offers a glimpse of a creepy new home at News Corp.
By Dean Starkman Nov 21, 2007 at 12:25 PM
Any Wall Street Journal reporter, editor—or reader—would do well to read the first 40 pages or so of Judith Regan’s... More
Esquire vs. The Audit on Ground Zero Coverage
Raab, Longobardi trade shots on Silverstein, Rubenstein, the Port Authority and lack of progress
By Dean Starkman Nov 19, 2007 at 11:25 AM
Editor's Note: In a recent two-part edition, The Audit roundly castigated the press for what we believe has been a... More
Zell If He Knows
Connie Bruck’s good piece on Zell doesn’t ask the key question: how to drive TribCo revenue?
By Dean Starkman Nov 15, 2007 at 12:28 PM
Connie Bruck's excellent profile of Sam Zell in this week's New Yorker contains information that even close Zell-watchers did not... More
The Weed Ain’t the Half of It
Devil is in the details of WSJ’s James Cayne story
By Dean Starkman Nov 6, 2007 at 03:20 PM
In case you missed it, The Wall Street Journal’s Kate Kelly last week produced an exceptional page-one story, known in... More
Citigroup Coverage: Too Clever by Half
The business press is too smart for our own good on a CEO’s exit
By Dean Starkman Nov 5, 2007 at 04:00 PM
Um, the business-press is talking to itself again. Coverage of this morning’s forced resignation of Charles Prince, Citigroup’s chairman and... More
A Clean Scoop on Merrill, Etc.
NYT pries out Merrill Lynch chief’s surprising merger parlay; other Friday business thoughts
By Dean Starkman Oct 26, 2007 at 12:25 PM
The New York Times beat the world with a story by Jenny Anderson and Landon Thomas Jr. that says Merrill... More
The Audit Recommends: Nocera on Fox Business, Others
Nocera on Fox Business News; New York Magazine piece on Gawker; WSJ on an Iraq corruption probe, and more.
By Dean Starkman Oct 22, 2007 at 03:45 PM
The New York Times's Joe Nocera is funny and perceptive in his column over the weekend in which he reviews... More
Dow Jones’s False Dawn
DJ’s promising future will benefit not an independent newspaper company, but News Corp. shareholders and Rupert Murdoch.
By Dean Starkman Oct 18, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Dow Jones & Co. reported its third-quarter earnings this morning, and, really, as a shareholder, I couldn't ask for better... More
At or Above-Prime Subprime Primers
With video, charts and well-chosen words, the business press catches readers up on a spiraling crisis
By Dean Starkman Oct 17, 2007 at 03:30 PM
Non-business press readers are probably asking themselves whether they should be worried about the ongoing crises in the housing and... More
An Above-Prime Collaboration
ABC News and NYT combined to help KO substandard subprime lender.
By Dean Starkman Oct 10, 2007 at 03:56 PM
On the subject of business-news coverage of Citigroup and suprime lending, Diana B. Henriques of the New York Times reminds... More
More on Citi and the Business Press
LAT and NYT editors make fair points, provide valuable teaching moment
By Dean Starkman Oct 8, 2007 at 01:20 PM
Editors from major dailies on both coasts wrote to say I blasted with too wide a blunderbuss last week in... More
Tale of Two Citis
It took an obscure magazine to reveal how Sandy Weill built his empire on subprime lending. Why?
By Dean Starkman Oct 3, 2007 at 09:30 AM
A long time ago, before the turn of the century, subprime lending was a marginal business—economically, ethically, every way. The... More
$70-Million Nit
Los Angeles Times , Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, Fox, CNN, MSNBC make common error in reporting Rather’s lawsuit
By Dean Starkman Sep 24, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Reminder to headline writers and reporters on the Dan Rather-CBS lawsuit story: He didn't file a "$70-million lawsuit" last week.... More
Lovers of the Press, Liberty Must Root for Cubs
A call to patriots everywhere
By Dean Starkman Sep 21, 2007 at 11:27 AM
As a Burkean liberal and paleo-librarian of longstanding, like many of you, The Audit has long understood that the Chicago... More
Our Score: Murdoch 2 - Journalism 0
No Ingrassia book, Varadarajan quits as readers learn to play by Austrialian rules
By Dean Starkman Sep 18, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Kudos to Keith J. Kelly of News Corp.'s New York Post who has more scoops this week. He says Larry... More
Greenspan, Iraq, Oil. How’s that again?
The WSJ and NYT underplay Greenspan role as “behind-the-scenes advocate” for invading Iraq. Woodward and Post get it right.
By Dean Starkman Sep 17, 2007 at 10:21 AM
In the second-to-last paragraph of a story on page A3 Monday, The Wall Street Journal says Alan Greenspan was "himself... More
“The Insurance Hoax” and the Business Press
Bloomberg Markets’s latest cover story and a Times piece perform a valuable service; Forbes and WSJ editorialists blow key Katrina fact
By Dean Starkman Sep 12, 2007 at 12:05 PM
When applying for a grant last year from George Soros's Open Society Institute to report on the insurance industry's response... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
