The Hamster Wheel

Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere

By Dean Starkman   Sep 14, 2010 at 06:00 AM

“Newsrooms have shrunk by 25% in three years.” —Project for Excellence in Journalism, “State of the News Media 2010” “A... More

Susanne Craig leaving WSJ for the NYT

A blow to the Journal

By Dean Starkman   Aug 30, 2010 at 01:59 PM

Susanne Craig, one of The Wall Street Journal’s star Wall Street reporters, is moving to The New York Times, a... More

ProPublica and Planet Money Find the Keys to the Kingdom

By Dean Starkman   Aug 27, 2010 at 12:21 PM

Mark Pittman: Where is this demand coming from? How can you guys sell this issue in thirty minutes? Who the... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Drives BP Story, NYT is better on Wal-Mart, Insurance, Alabama, Da Bears

By Dean Starkman   Aug 26, 2010 at 07:00 PM

—The WSJ continues its strong BP coverage, a story on which it has simply excelled. Today my old paper examines... More

Fortune With a Stellar Probe into J&J

By Dean Starkman   Aug 26, 2010 at 10:47 AM

Now playing in Fortune, a honey of a probe into pharma icon Johnson & Johnson. Written by Mina Kimes, it... More

Audit Notes: WSJ on FASB; More on Auditors; the Demand Side, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 25, 2010 at 06:45 PM

—I'd like to know more about the rushed retirement of the chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which The... More

Bloggers at the Treasury

By Dean Starkman   Aug 25, 2010 at 02:32 PM

Last week, small groups of bloggers were ushered into the Treasury Department for quasi-off-the-record meetings with Tim Geithner and other... More

Audit Notes: Pittman Suit Advances, FT’s nifty banking graphic, Shareholder Activists Gain, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 24, 2010 at 06:30 PM

—The full federal appeals court in New York refused to reconsider a lower court ruling ordering the Fed's board of... More

In an SEC Filing Against Countrywide, a Press Win

By Dean Starkman   Aug 24, 2010 at 10:17 AM

The Wall Street Journal this morning reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission has now explicitly alleged what that newspaper... More

Audit Notes: High Priests, Feed the Meter, Correlation and Causation, Etc.

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 03:10 PM

—Chrystia Freeland ruminates on business journalism's image problem in the Times Book Review, and argues against the good-guys-vs.-bad-guys construction of... More

Mortgage Fraud Still Tiny

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM

No matter what The Wall Street Journal says. Not to make too much of this. It's the summer doldrums, after... More

A Local Look at Small Business and Hard Money

Over the transom from the Audit/SABEW local business-press initiative

By Dean Starkman   Aug 23, 2010 at 09:50 AM

As some Audit readers know, we’ve started a push with the Society of American Business Editors and Writers to try... More

Mangling “Power Problem”

By Dean Starkman   Apr 19, 2010 at 05:53 PM

Heidi N. Moore, an ex-WSJ staffer and vocal defender of the business press, has been Twittering like mad to lambaste... More

The WSJ’s Pulitzer Shutout is Bad for the Country

By Dean Starkman   Apr 13, 2010 at 06:14 PM

As Alexander Cockburn theorized in a 1984 Wall Street Journal column, the Pulitzers are a kind of show business, a... More

The Price of Admission

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s debut and the limits of access journalism

By Dean Starkman   Mar 11, 2010 at 06:00 AM

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Medicaid, Rest Stops, Galbraith, Etc.

By Dean Starkman   Mar 5, 2010 at 04:58 PM

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities previews the upcoming congressional debate over whether to extend the federal support for... More

Stiglitz, Wolf, Pearlstein, Huffington: Media & Economics Conference, April 6

RSVP Now

By Dean Starkman   Mar 4, 2010 at 05:25 PM

A day-long conference on Columbia University's campus will explore the problems and opportunities posed by reporting on a financial... More

What’s a Toyota “Exclusive?” at This Point?

Bloomberg pushes the definition

By Dean Starkman   Feb 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM

What is an exclusive, anyway? This is more than journalism competition issue. As readers sort through the news gusher, it's... More

Audit Notes: An NYT Dud on Regulators; A Good Day for M&I; FT on AIG; HuffPo on Mortgages, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Feb 18, 2010 at 07:28 PM

--Dean Baker is right to criticize the Times story this morning that reported on talks to set up a financial... More

As the Hamster Wheel Turns

As productivity demands soar, journalists need to talk

By Dean Starkman   Feb 18, 2010 at 08:38 AM

In a piece on growing discontent on The Associated Press’s business desk, Gawker reported that the desk has a deal... More