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Informationen zum Autor Dean Starkman is editor of the Columbia Journalism Review 's business section, The Audit, which tracks financial journalism in print and on the web, and is the magazine's Kingsford Capital Fellow. A reporter for two decades, he worked eight years as a Wall Street Journal staff writer and was chief of the Providence Journal 's investigative unit. He has won numerous national and regional journalism awards and helped lead the Providence Journal to the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Investigations. Martha M. Hamilton is a writer and deputy editor with PolitiFact.com, which, in 2009, became the first non-print winner of the Pulitzer Prize. She also investigates complaints about financial journalism for CJR 's The Audit. She was a writer, Wall Street and corporate crime editor, and personal finance columnist for The Washington Post until 2008. Hamilton is also the author, along with former Post colleague Warren Brown, of Black and White and Red All Over . Ryan Chittum is deputy editor of CJR 's The Audit. He's a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal and has written for numerous other publications, including the New York Times . He is also a contributor to Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century . His recent work can be seen at www.cjr.org/author/ryan-chittum-1/. Felix Salmon is the finance blogger for Reuters. He arrived in the United States in 1997 from England, where he worked at Euromoney magazine. He also wrote daily commentary on Latin American markets for the former news service, Bridge News, and created the Economonitor blog for Roubini Global Economics. Klappentext Features a diverse compilation of essays by top business writers and analysts on the most important and intriguing business stories of the year. Includes John Markoff's writing on robot technology and the decline of the factory worker, Paul Kiel's thoughts on the ripple effects of the foreclosure crisis, and Max Abelson's reports on Wall Street's amusing reaction to the fast-shrinking annual bonus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Acknowledgments Part I. On the Ground 1. The Sharp Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class, by Jeff Tietz, Rolling Stone 2. The Great American Foreclosure Story: The Struggle for Justice and a Place to Call Home, by Paul Kiel, ProPublica Part II. Bad Medicine 3. Bad to the Bone: A Medical Horror Story, by Mina Kimes, Fortune 4. Prescription for Addiction, by Thomas Catan, Devlin Barrett, and Timothy W. Martin, Wall Street Journal 5. Anemia Drugs Made Billions, but at What Cost? Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post Part III. Big Business 6. Making the World's Largest Airline Fly, by Drake Bennett, BusinessWeek 7. Gusher, by Steve Coll, The New Yorker Part IV. Bad Business 8. Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle, by David Barstow, New York Times 9. Chesapeake and Rival Plotted to Suppress Land Prices Brian Grow, by Joshua Schneyer, Reuters 10. Fear Fans Flames for Chemical Makers, by Patricia Callahan and Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune Part V. Media and Marketing 11. His. Hers., by Jessica Pressler, New York 12. Top Five Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!, by Joe Eskenazi, San Francisco Weekly 13. Why India's Newspaper Industry Is Thriving, by Ken Auletta, The New Yorker 14. The Frequent Fliers Who Flew Too Much, by Ken Bensinger, Los Angeles Times Part VI. Big Think 15. Trade-offs Between Inequality, Productivity, and Employment, by Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity 16. The Naked and the TED, by Evgeny Morozov, Th...
