NYT’s AIG Story Puts Spotlight on State Insurance Regulation

By Dean Starkman   Feb 1, 2010 at 10:49 AM

The anachronism that is state-based insurance regulation has basically gotten a pass in the financial crisis—what with all the problems... More

Best of 2009: Dean Starkman

Starkman picks his top stories from 2009

By Dean Starkman   Dec 29, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Note to Audit Readers: The Audit will be taking off its green eyeshade and pince nez during a holiday break... More

NYT’s Creativity On the Unemployment Story

By Dean Starkman   Dec 15, 2009 at 05:56 PM

The Times deserves a little something extra in its pay envelope for this morning's unemployment package: a story based on... More

Everybody’s Got an Angle

WSJ’s Thomson on NYT’s Carr

By Dean Starkman   Dec 14, 2009 at 05:42 PM

It’s probably an understatement to say that we at The Audit weren’t nuts about the prospect of News Corp. buying... More

“He Could See Over”

A pal remembers Mark Pittman

By Dean Starkman   Dec 7, 2009 at 01:09 PM

This is a eulogy for Mark Pittman, a Loeb-award-winning Bloomberg reporter who died on Thanksgiving, given by his friend and... More

Hertz Drops a Libel Suit

By Dean Starkman   Dec 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM

A tip of The Audit’s green eyeshade to Aaron Elstein and Crain’s New York, which seems to have gotten some... More

The Pittman Way

A financial reporter who combined data and attitude

By Dean Starkman   Nov 30, 2009 at 02:53 PM

Q: Tell me how your cops background plays into what you’re doing now. A: You end up with a big... More

A Too-Narrow Lens

By Dean Starkman   Nov 24, 2009 at 03:04 PM

Zach Carter hits on something interesting about shareholder democracy in The Nation this week (disclosure-longer-than-this-post: I wrote a piece for... More

What’s a News Brief Worth?

By Dean Starkman   Nov 20, 2009 at 09:08 AM

The Journal Inquirer, of Manchester, Conn., which over the summer forced its larger rival, the Hartford Courant, to admit to... More

WSJ Scoops on AIG

By Dean Starkman   Nov 11, 2009 at 08:19 AM

The WSJ scores a nice scoop this morning with word that the relatively new head of AIG wants to quit... More

Trivial Pursuit at ProPublica

By Dean Starkman   Nov 6, 2009 at 09:32 AM

There is a journalistic school of thought emerging, I fear, that holds that because you went to the trouble of... More

Regulation: Cool, At Last

By Dean Starkman   Nov 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM

We appreciate the bizpress’s newfound attention to Washington political fights over regulatory and economic policy, and we’re not afraid to... More

The WSJ’s 3% Solution

By Dean Starkman   Nov 4, 2009 at 07:17 AM

A Journal story this morning reports that a White House claim that the stimulus bill saved or created 640,000 jobs... More

Times Maintains Consumer Credit Drumbeat

By Dean Starkman   Nov 3, 2009 at 11:15 AM

The Times has done a really nice job exploring dubious practices in the credit-card industry, not to mention efforts to... More

Foxy Headines in the New Journal

By Dean Starkman   Nov 3, 2009 at 09:09 AM

The Murdoch Street Journal has been a slow-motion overhaul, and it takes a minute sometimes to realize that things you... More

As Goldman Turns

By Dean Starkman   Nov 3, 2009 at 08:26 AM

For my money, McClatchy’s Goldman series remains the best show these days on business-press Broadway. It’s sort of the “Masterpiece... More

US Banker on Bank Rescues: “all so hit or miss.”

By Dean Starkman   Nov 2, 2009 at 02:47 PM

Speaking of tick-tocks, and I recently was, American Banker's US Banker magazine just published a credible entry on the bank-rescue... More

Carr Has a Point about Business News In the Dumps

By Dean Starkman   Nov 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM

David Carr looks at the business press and sees a connection between staffing cuts at business news outlets and the... More

McClatchy Tightens Ties Between Goldman and Predatory Lenders

By Dean Starkman   Nov 2, 2009 at 07:33 AM

McClatchy is running a big series on Goldman Sachs that does what other business news organizations have so far failed... More

A Bureau Where They Reported Stories to Death

By Dean Starkman   Oct 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM

The hue, cry and gnashing of teeth over News Corp.'s takeover of The Wall Street Journal's parent a couple of... More