The Best Business Writing

Dean Starkman is editor of the Columbia Journalism Review's The Audit, which tracks financial journalism in print and on the web, and is CJR'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. 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. 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. Felix Salmon is the finance blogger for Reuters and has been blogging since 1999. He arrived at Reuters from Conde Nast's Portfolio.com, where he originated the Market Movers financial blog. He arrived in the United States in 1997 from England, where he worked at Euromoney magazine.