WaPo on High-Cost Banking

By Dean Starkman   Oct 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM

The Post,which has done good work previously on the high cost of poverty, weighs in with a look at efforts... More

Hackers From Minsk

By Dean Starkman   Oct 13, 2009 at 09:15 AM

Wired takes an interesting look at computer security breaches at Wal-Mart from a few years ago. It's a good probe,... More

WSJ Looks at More Crawley Things in the Market

By Dean Starkman   Oct 13, 2009 at 08:20 AM

At a time of great suspicion of all things Wall Street, stories start to emerge of sneaky tricks that insiders... More

Times Discovers S&L-asaurus Working For Citi

By Dean Starkman   Oct 12, 2009 at 03:32 PM

I don't want to let the day pass without a nod to a bit of accountability reporting by Gretchen Morgenson... More

WSJ Misses the Mark on Consumer Credit

By Dean Starkman   Oct 12, 2009 at 10:00 AM

It's hard to understand how a major financial news outlet, at this late hour, can discuss the "democratization" of consumer... More

SunHerald’s Lee, Times-Pic’s Mowbray: Still on it

By Dean Starkman   Oct 9, 2009 at 04:50 PM

One of the true pleasures of reporting on the insurance industry's response, or non-response, to Hurricane Katrina was meeting, and... More

Seriously Smart Column by the NYT’s Norris

By Dean Starkman   Oct 9, 2009 at 02:00 PM

I can't let the day pass without a nod to Floyd Norris's very thoughtful column on the unintended—make that, intended,... More

Shaky Writing Hurts Good Bloomberg D.C. Reporting

By Dean Starkman   Oct 9, 2009 at 10:32 AM

The headline on this Bloomberg story says Derivatives Lobby Links With New Democrats to Blunt Obama Plan. That's true as... More

WaPo Boosts 401(k)s for No Good Reason

By Dean Starkman   Oct 8, 2009 at 10:42 AM

A main beef I have with personal finance reporting—beyond its constant purveying of banalities ("diversify!";"buy and hold!")—is that it generally... More

Audit Interview: The FT’s Lionel Barber

“We got a piece of the puzzle [but] we don’t tend to go grassroots up. There’s an important lesson for all of us.”

By Dean Starkman   Oct 8, 2009 at 08:29 AM

Among the discomfiting changes sweeping through the financial news business in the U.S. has been the rising influence of what... More

WSJ Is Good on Medical Transparency

By Dean Starkman   Oct 6, 2009 at 09:08 AM

How's that expression go?—"Sunlight is the best disinfectant." The Journal's Thomas M. Burton this morning shows Louis Brandeis's adage is... More

A Good Food-Safety Investigation from the Times

By Dean Starkman   Oct 5, 2009 at 09:25 AM

Credit is due the Times and veteran investigative reporter Michael Moss for a painstaking and stomach-turning account yesterday of the... More

Of Buts and Bloomberg News

By Dean Starkman   Oct 2, 2009 at 11:04 AM

Bloomberg News top editor Matt Winkler raised eyebrows around the newswire/data provider the other week with his op-ed in The... More

Urban-Affairs Reporting in the WSJ

By Dean Starkman   Oct 1, 2009 at 10:14 AM

The Journal deserves a nod for a good inside-the-paper story on Detroit public schools' using free food, celebrity visits and... More

More Journalism Green Shoots

By Dean Starkman   Sep 25, 2009 at 12:28 PM

The news this morning of a $5 million slug of money for a new non-profit local news organization in the... More

Harper’s Long Miss on AIG

By Dean Starkman   Sep 25, 2009 at 09:20 AM

I was standing at the 116th Street subway stop looking for something to read when a trained started to pull... More

James Grant’s Twaddle on Detroit

By Dean Starkman   Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38 AM

Looking over the vast landscape of foreclosures in New York City graphically illustrated at the Queens Museum of Art show... More

Leonhardt’s Deft Med Mal Treatment

By Dean Starkman   Sep 24, 2009 at 03:25 PM

Times's economics columnist David Leonhardt deserves a tip of the doctor's mirrors for delving into the messy business of separating... More

Bloomberg Further Hammers FDIC Credibility

By Dean Starkman   Sep 24, 2009 at 10:38 AM

Audit Interviewee Jon Weil, the Bloomberg finance columnist, has a good piece this morning noting that the bank regulator is... More

Go to Queens Museum, Get Mad

By Dean Starkman   Sep 24, 2009 at 09:03 AM

Business press practitioners and their readers in the New York area who are suffering from crisis fatigue have a few... More