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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
The WSJ Story is Fine, But…
What’s missing from coverage of the insurance “industry”
By Dean Starkman Jun 13, 2007 at 11:41 AM
The WSJ did a story last week on the explosive growth of state-owned insurers of last resort. This is a... More
Samuelson says there’s nothing to be done
Warns to avoid “class warfare”
By Dean Starkman Jun 7, 2007 at 12:27 PM
The Washington Post's Robert Samuelson today weighs in with an informed column on cultural changes affecting income inequality. His conclusion:... More
Loss of Wartzman column reveals LAT’s biz coverage priorities
The Reader Speaks
By Dean Starkman Jun 6, 2007 at 04:11 PM
One of The Audit's numerous sources in the business press passes along the following letter by Peter Dreier, a politics... More
How to Kill a Story
Murdoch would kill the Journal’s journalism
By Dean Starkman Jun 5, 2007 at 10:31 AM
How do you kill a story? It must be hard, right? All reporters know the truth: any monkey can do... More
Great story; a concern and a thought
The Bancrofts’ lawyer is clearly conflicted; spell out where the CEO stands
By Dean Starkman Jun 4, 2007 at 10:32 AM
Business-press readers and family therapy buffs alike will get a kick out The Wall Street Journal's Saturday story on discussions... More
Financial Times Bears Down
The British Peach combines sophistication and street smarts in a nice Page One piece.
By Dean Starkman Jun 1, 2007 at 11:37 AM
The Audit can't resist the two-column, paper-leading story (badly underplayed on the Web) by Saskia Scholtes, who got hold of... More
DJ’s unsuitable suitors
Bancrofts in a tight spot
By Dean Starkman Jun 1, 2007 at 10:13 AM
The news that Dow Jones & Co.'s controlling Bancroft family will consider selling the company, including to Rupert Murdoch's News... More
A word about leadership
And one reason Dow Jones lost the war
By Dean Starkman May 31, 2007 at 01:19 PM
Warren H. Phillips, a former longtime CEO of Dow Jones & Co., wrote a letter to the New York Times's... 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.
