Dean Starkman: 2 books
The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark
The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In this sweeping, incisive post mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He locates the roots of the problem in the origin of business news as a market messaging...
Confidence Game
The Limited Vision of the News Gurus
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Dean Starkman takes on what has become a dominant perspective on the future of news in the digital age as personified by three well known media thinkers—Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky, and Jeff Jarvis—who have dominated the "future of news" debate. Starkman makes a powerful case that the perspective...