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About Dean Starkman
Dean Starkman is an award-winning journalist and media critic and is the New York-based Wall Street reporter for the Los Angeles Times, covering the intersection of finance and society, with a focus on issues affecting California. This month, he will move to the School of Public Policy of the Central European University, Budapest Hungary, where he is a fellow at its Center for Media, Data, and Society. He will teach on media and public interest journalism and participant in a project to create training and support program for embattled independent media in Central Europe and the Balkans.
In 2014, he published “The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: the Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism,” a wide-ranging critique of the American media’s coverage of Wall Street and mortgage lenders in the years leading up to the financial crisis of 2008. He is lead editor of “The Best Business Writing” book anthology series, published by Columbia University Press.
Starkman was a longtime editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, where he ran the business-media section called “The Audit.” He is a former Wall Street Journal staff writer where he covered white-collar crime and securities law, among other things. His work has appeared in the Nation, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, and elsewhere.