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Popular? Must Be “Populist”
Why does the press use “populist” to refer to policies that are simply liberal?
By Dean Starkman Feb 20, 2008 at 03:59 PM
Before this gets out of hand, big media needs to stop using the word “populist" to describe Democrats’ economic programs... More
Democrats Attack “Business,” “Trade”
Or so says The Wall Street Journal on page one
By Dean Starkman Feb 18, 2008 at 01:55 PM
Wary Wall Street Journal watchers on the lookout for signs that Rupert Murdoch’s pro-corporate agenda will creep into the Journal’s... More
Mad Money, Bad Blood
Why CNBC threw Barron’s off its air
By Dean Starkman Feb 15, 2008 at 07:45 AM
Last summer, Barron’s published a tough story on Jim Cramer, concluding that the manic and popular star of CNBC’s Mad... More
Oklahoma 1999
Lessons on insurance reporting from a nine-year-old disaster
By Dean Starkman Feb 8, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Before we turn the page on the deadly tornadoes in the south that killed fifty-seven this week, according to the... More
Conspicuous Assumption
The Times recycles discredited myths about personal debt
By Dean Starkman Feb 5, 2008 at 01:40 PM
The New York Times poorly serves readers this morning with a surprisingly ill-informed story about Americans paying cash these days... More
Stretched Ethics
Incoming head of WSJ’s new luxury magazine plugged her own yoga business, quoted a partner in Times of London columns
By Dean Starkman Jan 31, 2008 at 12:20 PM
The new chief of an upcoming Wall Street Journal magazine aimed at the superrich quoted her business partner in a... More
Zell The Manager
This year’s management theory
By Dean Starkman Jan 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM
The back and forth between another newly dismissed Los Angeles Times editor who refused to carry out another round of... More
Tale of a Winning Bet Against Predators
WSJ scores with great subprime story
By Dean Starkman Jan 15, 2008 at 12:41 PM
The Audit congratulates The Wall Street Journal for a riveting read this morning on the big winner in the subprime... More
Journalism Makes Them Uncomfortable
A mutant strain of journalism criticism
By Dean Starkman Jan 10, 2008 at 12:19 PM
TheDeal.com the other day wanted to know who leaked the story about Jimmy Cayne being pushed from his job as... More
Unsupported and Untrue
WSJ lacks evidence to support a sweeping, front-page claim against mortgage borrowers
By Dean Starkman Jan 2, 2008 at 01:33 PM
The lead story in a recent Wall Street Journal says that borrower fraud "goes a long way toward explaining why... More
Letting Sleeping Watchdogs Lie
The business press rediscovers regulators
By Dean Starkman Dec 20, 2007 at 03:20 PM
Reading business-press coverage of Henry Paulson over the past few months was disorienting. Something was missing, but you couldn’t put... More
Downie Overdoes It
A mostly reasonable defense of a reporter oversteps a fairness boundary
By Dean Starkman Dec 19, 2007 at 02:38 PM
In an otherwise reasonable and spirited defense of a reporter, The Washington Post’s Leonard Downie Jr. trips by employing ad... More
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
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.
