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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
What the Bancrofts Owe Dow Jones
In return for a century of dividends, a “no” and a graceful exit
By Dean Starkman Jul 19, 2007 at 11:38 AM
It's on the Bancrofts now. That hard-bargaining Dow Jones & Co. board has agreed to sell the Bancroft's patrimony for... More
The Right Prescription in the Journal
The Wall Street Journal gives Big Pharma’s state house lobbying an MRI
By Dean Starkman Jul 13, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Kudos and a smart salute to Sarah Rubenstein and the WSJ for a tough and intelligent story on Big Pharma... More
Parsing the Anonymice at Dow Jones and the Journal
The Times lets unnamed “senior editors” and a “person close to Dow Jones management” nudge the Murdoch sale along
By Dean Starkman Jul 10, 2007 at 11:23 AM
This New York Times piece from Monday says an unnamed person connected to Dow Jones management and unnamed senior editors... More
Ottaway to Bancrofts: Resist the Murdoch Temptation
Former long time Dow Jones director and executive James Ottaway, whose family owns 6.2% of the company’s super-voting shares, opposes News Corp.’s bid for the company and urges the controlling family to do likewise.
By Dean Starkman Jul 9, 2007 at 10:45 AM
If Dow Jones & Co.'s board agrees to a sale to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., as seems likely, the transaction... More
Independence Day
No time for sunshine patriots at Dow Jones
By Dean Starkman Jul 3, 2007 at 03:21 PM
Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. —Tom Paine, The... More
Why News Corp. Can’t Cover the U.S. Business Story
It is the story
By Dean Starkman Jun 29, 2007 at 12:40 PM
The business press, I have to say, has done a terrific job vetting News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch as potential... More
Pitiful
Murdoch in the sewer
By Dean Starkman Jun 26, 2007 at 10:20 AM
This News Corp. statement speaks for itself. It comes near the beginning of the second day of The New York... More
Don’t Miss The Post Cheney Series
“The Angler” is great and a pleasure to read.
By Dean Starkman Jun 25, 2007 at 12:29 PM
The Washington Post series, by Bart Gellman (The Audit's onetime officemate, I'm proud to say) and Jo Becker, so far... More
The Audit Recommends…
The Times on Murdoch; The New Yorker on Murdoch; The WSJ on Murdoch and the Bear Stearns bailout;Lawrence Summers’s Op-Ed in the FT.
By Dean Starkman Jun 25, 2007 at 11:01 AM
Business-press readers get even more reasons to oppose a Dow Jones sale to News Corp. from The New Yorker's rundown... More
Agency Problems at Dow Jones and the WSJ
Unusual job guarantees would put top Journal editors in a tight spot.
By Dean Starkman Jun 21, 2007 at 04:03 PM
You can't tell the players without a scorecard, and today The Audit will spell out where the economic interests of... More
Secular vs. Cyclical
Shafer is wrong about Times piece
By Dean Starkman Jun 19, 2007 at 11:46 AM
Jack Shafer finds a page one piece in Sunday's New York Times about a slowdown in online retail sales to... More
Changes at the Journal
The Audit’s interpretation
By Dean Starkman Jun 14, 2007 at 01:40 PM
The Wall Street Journal's new managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, made some changes in the newsroom that are bold if nothing... 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?
Fearless British mother who talked down Woolwich terrorists
“It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”
7 questions for President Obama
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
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.
