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Three things to like about the Times OSHA exposé
And one thing not to like at all
By Dean Starkman Apr 1, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Ian Urbina's magisterial probe in The New York Times of OSHA's failure to police long-term health risks—like harmful fumes caused... More
The Rise of Longform Newspaper Writing, 1950s-2003
Fink and Schudson document the rise of “contexual journalism” before the longform meltdown.
By Dean Starkman Mar 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Katherine Fink and Michael Schudson have a fantastic new paper called "The Rise of Contextual Journalism, 1950s-2003," to be... More
Q&A with the FT’s Martin Dickson
A new US managing editor takes over at the salmon-colored financial daily
By Dean Starkman Jan 28, 2013 at 07:00 AM
Martin Dickson came on as US managing editor of the Financial Times in September, succeeding Gillian Tett, who is on... More
Longform meltdown (cont.)
Reaction to a post on the decline of longform stories at major papers
By Dean Starkman Jan 22, 2013 at 07:00 AM
My post presenting data showing that major newspapers drastically cut back their longform story output in the last decade generated... More
Major papers’ longform meltdown
Stories longer than 2,000 words down 86 percent at the LAT since 2003, 50 percent at WaPo, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jan 17, 2013 at 03:11 PM
No one equates story-length with quality. Let’s start with that concession. But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you consider... More
Native ads’ existential problem
L’affaire Atlantic/Scientology points up the format’s built-in problems for news
By Dean Starkman Jan 15, 2013 at 11:00 PM
The Atlantic’s big mistake in the Scientololgy “debacle” has been variously described as: 1. Running an ad in the... More
EXCLUSIVE: WSJ memo doubles down on scoops
An internal memo over the transom
By Dean Starkman Jan 10, 2013 at 07:20 PM
Fresh over the transom, a new memo from The Wall Street Journal’s hierarchy on the importance of scoops to reporters’... More
Murdoch’s straw snobs
The phony war on “elitist” journalism
By Dean Starkman Jan 8, 2013 at 07:03 AM
It’s often hard to tell when Rupert Murdoch’s biographer, Michael Wolff, is merely transmitting his subject’s views or whether... More
A valuable walk through a 10-K
Partnoy and Eisinger keep it simple
By Dean Starkman Jan 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Sometimes, when faced with the unholy mess that is financial regulation, the best idea is to keep it simple,... More
Andrew Sullivan’s bold experiment
And how to think about it
By Dean Starkman Jan 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The great journalism paywall debate has picked up steam lately as more newspapers move away from the idea of giving... More
Best of 2012: Dean Starkman
The Audit chief’s best of the year
By Dean Starkman Dec 31, 2012 at 01:17 PM
A Narrowed Gaze — How the business press forgot the rest of us. What McClure Said: “The Story is the... More
The real problem with that Dealbook conference
In a reputational transaction between Wall Street and a newspaper, guess who wins?
By Dean Starkman Dec 20, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The discussion around the corporate star-studded Dealbook conference last week was good, but I don’t think it got to... More
Ingrassia’s balancing act
Thoughts as The New York Times business editor steps aside
By Dean Starkman Dec 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM
What are the most important American journalism jobs in the early 21st century? Given the Financial Crisis, you could make... More
In Cleveland, bracing for a free-news fallout
Fear and loathing at The Plain Dealer
By Dean Starkman Dec 12, 2012 at 03:10 PM
Cleveland Scene magazine ran a fine, overlooked story on the ticking clock at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, as journalists and readers... More
Audit Notes: a big Dealbook conference, Gawker on unemployment, buzzed into oatmeal, etc.
An assembly of titans at the Times, listening to the jobless, etc.
By Dean Starkman Dec 10, 2012 at 11:01 PM
For better and worse, conferencing is becoming a big part of the media landscape. We do a mini-version, too.... More
News worth paying for
Looking for profit in public-interest news
By Dean Starkman Dec 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Now that the confetti and campaign corks had been swept up after news leaked that The Washington Post was probably... More
Audit Notes: sustainable newsrooms edition
More thoughts on digital subscriptions at the Washington Post and elsewhere
By Dean Starkman Dec 7, 2012 at 06:16 PM
Jeff Bercovici asks if the The Washington Post waited too long to install its paywall since its revenue losses,... More
Audit Notes: WaPo likely to get a wall; papers as luxury product; thought on The Daily; Barofsky
Long overdue in the nation’s capital; That was Murdoch’s ideal newspaper? etc.
By Dean Starkman Dec 6, 2012 at 06:25 PM
The news: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Washington Post is most likely adopting a wall next... More
On blaming The Daily’s demise on purely technical causes
Was it any good? Who knows?
By Dean Starkman Dec 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Remember The Daily? Yeah, that was a long time ago. Good times. Now an artifact of history, like the Montreal... More
The Washington Post needs a paywall—now
A strategic error needs to be reversed, stat
By Dean Starkman Nov 26, 2012 at 10:00 AM
The not-so-gentle ejection of Marcus Brauchli from the top editor’s chair at The Washington Post has cast a bright... 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.
