Category: Journalism

May 1, 2014

Dean Starkman on Financial Journalism and the Disappearance of Investigative Reporting

Dean Starkman, author of The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism, was recently interviewed on All Things Considered on changing trends in news and what it might mean for the future of journalism....

February 7, 2014

Beyond News and Ezra Klein's New Venture

The following post is by Mitchell Stephens, author of the forthcoming Beyond News: The Future of Journalism: “The century-and-a-half-long period in human history when it was possible to make a big business out of selling news … was an anomaly,...

January 24, 2014

Dean Starkman Debates Whether the Business Press Failed the Public Trust

Recently, Columbia Journalism Review and Public Business, organized a panel Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?. Among the panelists were Dean Starkman, author of The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism...

January 23, 2014

Dean Starkman on How and Why the Business Press Failed

In The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism, Dean Starkman argues that the business press missed the biggest story of the new century. More specifically,the mainstream business press failed to cover and convey...

January 22, 2014

Interview with Dean Starkman, author of "The Watchdog That Didn't Bark"

“Journalism can be the antidote to corruption…. It gives the public a fighting chance to understand complex problems when powerful institutions betray their trust and act against the public interest. It can be a clarifying force, without which democracy in...

December 10, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Watchdogs, Buddhists, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles: The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism Dean Starkman Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice (Now available in paper)...

August 7, 2013

Salmon, Starkman, and Chittum on Bezos's Purchase of the Washington Post

What did some of the editors of The Best Business Writing think about Jeff Bezos’s purchase of The Washington Post, which will surely be one of the biggest business and journalism stories of the year. The Audit, a feature on...

June 14, 2013

"I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave," by Mac McClelland — Best Busines Writing 2013

In “I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave,” originally published in Mother Jones and included in The Best Business Writing 2013, Mac McClelland describes her experiences working at a warehouse for an Internet company. She describes conditions in which workers are...

June 13, 2013

The Trouble is the Banks — Best Business Writing 2013

“I always believed getting an education was the only way to succeed in life. Now I regret it every single day.”—Donna DeNaro, from The Trouble is the Banks excerpted in The Best Business Writing 2013 The Trouble is the Banks...

June 12, 2013

Gusher by Steve Coll — The Best Business Writing 2013

Steve Coll’s “Gusher,” published in The Best Business Writing 2013 offers a behind-the-scenes look at the tremendous influence ExxonMobil has in Washington and in shaping environmental and climate policy. In this excerpt, Steve Coll documents some of the early battles...

June 11, 2013

How Companies Learn Your Secrets from The Best Business Writing 2013

“There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subcon­scious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive render­ing of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how...

May 15, 2013

Poetry: The News that Stays News — Stephen Burt

“So where did this idea come about that poems are the opposite of journalism, that poets do what reporters cannot, and vice versa?”—Stephen Burt The following post by Stephen Burt was originally published on Nieman Reports. In the post Stephen...