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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
Down With The Conflict-of-Interest Police
Anonymice wrong again: It’s fine for former WSJ-current NYT editor to do a book on his old company
By Dean Starkman Sep 4, 2007 at 11:56 AM
The New York Post's well-sourced Keith J. Kelly published a good item last week saying that a book idea floated... More
Per Suits
The Journal works on Saturday
By Dean Starkman Aug 29, 2007 at 10:07 AM
People familiar with goings-on at The Wall Street Journal tell The New York Times that Wall Street's top watchdog is... More
The Subprime Mess From Mount Olympus
Why James Grant’s long view comes up short
By Dean Starkman Aug 27, 2007 at 03:35 PM
Who’s to blame? The human race, first and foremost. Well-intended public policy, second. And Wall Street, third — if... More
Recommended
An L.A. Times story on aging Holocaust survivors
By Dean Starkman Aug 23, 2007 at 10:19 AM
The Los Angeles Times has a poignant story today on research that shows how the long-supressed memories of Holocaust survivors... More
Prime and Subprime
The New York Times and Business Week led on subprime coverage. Others didn’t.
By Dean Starkman Aug 21, 2007 at 04:58 PM
The business press can always be counted on to explain in authoritative detail why we just lost a trillion dollars.... More
Dow Jones Down
The WSJ editorial page launches baseless attacks on its competitors’ motives—it will fit right in at News Corp.
By Dean Starkman Aug 13, 2007 at 10:45 AM
And so Dow Jones & Co., once the proud lion of financial news, goes down instead like a jackrabbit shot... More
Why the Dow Jones Vote Matters
It’s about the stories
By Dean Starkman Jul 30, 2007 at 04:33 PM
NEW YORK -- Last Nov. 14, 38-year-old Martin A. Siegel, one of Wall Street's leading investment bankers, was spending the... More
Don’t Listen to Searby
Or other Wall Street analysts about newspapers
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2007 at 12:46 PM
The New York Times Co. reported yesterday that its second-quarter earnings fell from the same period a year ago.... 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.
