Tag: Dean Starkman

December 18, 2014

The Best Business Writing 2014 on The NFL's Questionable Business Practices

Two pieces from THE BEST BUSINESS WRITING 2014 exposes the very questionable and exploitative business practices of the NFL.

December 16, 2014

Best Business Writing 2014 — Taking on Google, Facebook, and the Ethos of Silicon Valley

The Best Business Writing 2014, edited by Dean Starkman, Martha Hamilton, and Ryan Chittum includes a series of sharp essays on the culture, practice, ethos, and ideology of Silicon Valley. In different ways, Evgeny Morozov, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Faludi...

September 5, 2014

Dean Starkman: Wrecking an Economy Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

“We know the banks are eager to put the scandal of the financial crisis behind them. What’s disturbing is that, in the name of deference, convenience, or something darker, the Justice Department is letting them do just that.”—Dean Starkman In...

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....

April 1, 2014

Umami, Watchdogs, Blacklists, The Hockey Stick and More April Author Events

A variety of Columbia University Press will be traveling from coast to coast to talk about their books in April. Among them are Dean Starkman, who will be talking about his new book The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial...

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 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...

May 21, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The Best Business Writing, The Matchmaker, The Discovery of Logic

Our weekly listing of new titles: The Best Business Writing 2013 Edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China Zhu Wen; translated by Julia...