What Washington Does All Day

HuffPo with a terrific story on the obscure interchange battle and its meaning

By Dean Starkman   Apr 29, 2011 at 11:55 AM

David Brooks says correctly that not enough Washington reporters break away from the pack and report on how the... More

When No One Cared About Moody’s and S&P’s Opinions

They operated on a journalism model, and no one listened

By Dean Starkman   Apr 28, 2011 at 02:24 PM

Does it rankle you that when S&P or Moody's issues a credit warning on, say, Japanese debt, not to mention... More

“The News Was That It Happened”

Bernanke presser was good and right

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 05:40 PM

I wish that was an original thought, but Randall Forsyth of Barron's made the apt observation on the post-game... More

Ask Bernanke About This, Too

Depression-era levels of black unemployment in some cities, well-documented in HuffPo

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM

This morning's strong Huffington Post piece on black-unemployment is a useful clip to print out and carry to the... More

Whither Twitter?

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 08:44 AM

What does it mean if Mark Zuckerberg doesn't obsess about you anymore? Fortune's story from last week on Twitter's... More

Ohio’s Lost Decade

Dayton paper shines light on a devastating job and income losses.

By Dean Starkman   Apr 25, 2011 at 05:52 PM

Look what's happened to payrolls in Montgomery County, Ohio, in the last decade: Annual private payrolls dropped about $3... More

Securities Star Chambers

By Dean Starkman   Apr 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM

Gretchen Morgenson sees hope in a recent arbitration case that, incredibly, found in favor of actual human beings against... More

The Pulitzers and The Wall Street Journal

Where to find the big one

By Dean Starkman   Apr 19, 2011 at 11:40 AM

Reading The Wall Street Journal’s “What They Know” series on Internet (un)privacy last year, I thought, this has “Pulitzer” written... More

WSJ Helps Keep It Real on Inflation

By Dean Starkman   Feb 18, 2011 at 10:23 AM

Jon Hilsenrath and Justin Lahart do well to pinpoint exactly what we need to worry about in the inflation... More

Audit Notes: Goldman’s Marks, Taibbi, Dakota Tea, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2011 at 04:23 PM

I like Bill Cohan's clearly written column explaining how Goldman marked its mortgage assets lower than everyone else, then... More

What Dimon, Cutler Knew About Madoff

By Dean Starkman   Feb 17, 2011 at 10:51 AM

The WSJ has a piece this morning advancing our knowledge about what Jamie Dimon knew about the Madoff fraud.... More

Best of 2010: Felix Salmon

Highlights from CJR’s newest Peterson Fellow

By Dean Starkman   Dec 30, 2010 at 08:50 AM

Salvaging the FCIC: The primer offered by Republicans members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission is essentially 5,400 words... More

Best of 2010: Dean Starkman

CJR’s Kingsford Capital Fellow picks his top stories of the year

By Dean Starkman   Dec 28, 2010 at 09:23 AM

The Hamster Wheel. Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere. The Hamster Wheel isn’t speed; it’s... More

The Felix Thing

Concerns from a friend about our new blogger

By Dean Starkman   Nov 18, 2010 at 11:36 AM

We’ve gotten a couple of private notes expressing concern about our naming Felix Salmon as our new Peterson Fellow to... More

Leakapalooza on the Hill

Public relations bends this morning’s banking committee previews

By Dean Starkman   Nov 16, 2010 at 12:45 PM

Bank of America previewed and helped to soften its executives' planned apology before Congress today by letting the Times... More

A Biovail/60 Minutes Coda

By Dean Starkman   Nov 10, 2010 at 06:13 PM

Some stories just never go away. 60 Minutes's poor decision four years ago to portray a small pharmaceuticals company... More

Felix Salmon is the Columbia Journalism Review’s New Peterson Fellow

Will blog about media coverage of fiscal and economic policy

By Dean Starkman   Nov 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM

Felix Salmon, the finance blogger for Reuters and a leading voice on financial and economic issues, has been appointed the... More

A “Gate” Worthy of the Name—”ForeclosureGate”

By Dean Starkman   Oct 11, 2010 at 02:02 PM

The spectacle of the nation’s biggest banks—Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co, GMAC—halting foreclosures because of evidence of mass-scale... More

Seeking a Media Critic

By Dean Starkman   Sep 29, 2010 at 03:00 PM

CJR is looking for an experienced journalist to be its Peterson Fellow, a part-time job blogging about and critiquing media... More

Of Hamsters and Values

Reply to Felix Salmon

By Dean Starkman   Sep 27, 2010 at 11:13 AM

“The Hamster Wheel,” my argument against news organizations’ cranked-up productivity requirements for reporters, generated some nice discussion, including a post... More