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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Dean Starkman

1. December 27, 2011 01:33 PM

   Best of 2011: Dean Starkman

   The Audit's head honcho picks his top CJR stories from the past year

   By Dean Starkman

   Confidence Game: The limited vision of the news gurus: The landmark 8,000-word essay that upended the future-of-news debate. The Hole in FON Theory: In an exchange on "Confidence Game" with future-of-news thinker Clay Shirky, I argue that FON theory, while meritorious on many levels, has no answers for journalism's main mission. Bad Parent: Written in the midst of News Corp....

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2. November 14, 2011 01:16 PM

   Debating Starkman’s “Confidence Game”

   Rounding up responses

   By Alysia Santo

   Dean Starkman’s critique of future-of-news gurus Jeff Jarvis, Clay Shirky, and Jay Rosen, among others, made a bit of splash, as these things go. C.W. Anderson, an assistant professor of media culture at CUNY’s College of Staten Island, tweeted this shortly after the publication: @Chanders: In honesty: actually curious to see if @deanstarkman's piece can lead to a real debate...

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3. November 9, 2011 03:40 PM

   The Blessings of Networks

   Emily Bell takes on Dean Starkman’s “news gurus” argument

   By Emily Bell

   Dean Starkman's long read on 'the news gurus' in the Columbia Journalism Review starts out with the story of the remarkable Ida Tarbell, a template for the modern investigative reporter, whose work in 1904 took on Rockefeller's Standard Oil. He tells us about Tarbell to remind us how different journalism has become—and inevitably so. While acknowledging that those days have...

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4. April 3, 2012 11:51 AM

   What McClure Said: “The Story is the Thing”

   Clearing space for the agenda-setting narrative in digital journalism

   By Dean Starkman

   Editor's note: CJR’s Dean Starkman was invited to give the opening keynote speech at this year’s Narrative Arc Conference, at Boston University. The three-day conference at the end of March gathered some of the best nonfiction writers in America to talk about the craft. Starkman edits The Audit, CJR’s business desk, and is our Kingsford Capital Fellow. In the speech,...

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