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Tuesdays with Andrew
Changing up a Dealbook ritual
By Dean Starkman Oct 16, 2012 at 04:54 PM
An Andrew Ross Sorkin column is beginning to take on a ritualistic feel. Sorkin is The New York Times... More
Audit Notes: a missing foreclosure figure, Denton, Brookes
How many “boomerang” buyers are there again? Gawker’s secret sauce, etc
By Dean Starkman Oct 15, 2012 at 07:05 AM
This Wall Street Journal story says buyers who went through foreclosure are already back in the market, buying houses again.They’re... More
Facing up to the high cost of free news
Is there a quality argument to support the digital ads-only model?
By Dean Starkman Oct 8, 2012 at 11:27 AM
Pretty soon, proponents of free digital news will have to own up to the implications of their model. The... More
The hamster wheel vs. the quality imperative
The real problem with JRC/Advance free model and the unappreciated benefit of a paywall
By Dean Starkman Sep 14, 2012 at 07:22 AM
…The great is rare; the dull quite common. But — and this is the genius of the online format... More
Required skimming: unemployment
Get the facts about the jobs figures
By Dean Starkman Aug 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Digital goes first at the FT (Updated)
The Financial Times now has more digital subscribers than print ones; running the numbers
By Dean Starkman Jul 30, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Like them or not, newspaper paywalls continue better-than-expected performances, the latest good (for some of us) news coming from The... More
Audit Notes: more NOLA rumblings, Journatic, well-squawked
A new buyer emerges in New Orleans, Quick and Sorkin did good, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2012 at 11:36 PM
—Can we agree at this point that Advance Publications’s attempt to sell its plans for dramatic newsroom cuts and... More
A Washington reporter’s review of Barofsky’s book is unintentionally revealing
Shield’s up!
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Jackie Calmes's review of Neil Barofsky’s new book, Bailout, to me, says so much more about Washington press culture... More
Audit Notes: Macabre probe, Wall Street lethargy, linkless hype busters, ‘Chairman of the Fed,’ etc.
A compelling cross-border probe into the body parts business
By Dean Starkman Jul 25, 2012 at 11:04 PM
“When my daughter-in-law touched it, she said that his foot was empty.” That’s right. Someone stole the inside... More
A WSJ ‘A-hed’ covers the same topic twice
Tapping on the glass of a barometer for quality
By Dean Starkman Jul 25, 2012 at 08:20 AM
Back when News Corp. took over Dow Jones & Co., which some of us didn’t think was a particularly... More
Audit Notes: UK edition
On hack-gate and the paper that broke it open
By Dean Starkman Jul 24, 2012 at 04:27 PM
Make no mistake about it: the criminal charges unveiled yesterday against former top News Corp. officials mark a major... More
Audit Notes: NOLA stirrings, Libor’s victim, Honda-driving billionaire, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 23, 2012 at 06:25 PM
—With the news market in New Orleans suddenly up for grabs—thanks to Advance Publications's decision to slash the newsroom... More
Introducing Best Business Writing 2012
By Dean Starkman Jun 13, 2012 at 04:00 PM
Columbia Journalism Review Books has just published Best Business Writing 2012, featuring pieces by Paul Krugman, Martin Wolf, Matt Taibbi,... More
The reporter who saw it coming
Mike Hudson thought he was merely exposing injustice, but he also was unearthing the roots of a global financial meltdown
By Dean Starkman May 3, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Mike Hudson began reporting on the subprime mortgage business in the early 1990s when it was still a marginal,... More
The reporter who saw it coming
Mike Hudson thought he was merely exposing injustice, but he also was unearthing the roots of a global financial meltdown
By Dean Starkman Apr 22, 2012 at 03:33 PM
Mike Hudson began reporting on the subprime mortgage business in the early 1990s when it was still a marginal,... More
The Value of Prizes
By Dean Starkman Apr 16, 2012 at 09:55 PM
I watched the Pulitzer announcements for the first time this afternoon, just upstairs in the World Room—and, well, it’s a... More
What McClure Said: “The Story is the Thing”
Clearing space for the agenda-setting narrative in digital journalism
By Dean Starkman Apr 3, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Editor's note: CJR’s Dean Starkman was invited to give the opening keynote speech at this year’s Narrative Arc Conference, at... More
A Narrowed Gaze
How the business press forgot the rest of us
By Dean Starkman Jan 9, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Steve Lipin didn’t fit the profile of a transformative media figure when he took over the mergers-and-acquisitions beat for... More
Best of 2011: Dean Starkman
The Audit’s head honcho picks his top CJR stories from the past year
By Dean Starkman Dec 27, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Confidence Game: The limited vision of the news gurus: The landmark 8,000-word essay that upended the future-of-news debate. The Hole... More
The Hole In FON Theory
Continuing the discussion about the future of news with Clay Shirky
By Dean Starkman Dec 21, 2011 at 11:00 AM
I thank Clay Shirky and other posters for their responses to “Confidence Game: the limited vision of the news... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
