The Best Business Writing 2013

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.

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 PricesBrian 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, The New Republic
Part VII. Adventures in Finance
17. Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons, by Max Abelson, Bloomberg
18. The Tale of a Whale of a Fail, by Matt Levine, Dealbreaker
19. Case Against Bear and JPMorgan Provides Little Cheer, by Bethany McLean, Reuters
20. How ECB Chief Outflanked German Foe in Fight for Euro, by Brian Blackstone and Marcus Walker, Wall Street Journal
21. From The Trouble is the Banks, Edited by Mark Greif, Dayna Tortorici, Kathleen French, Emma Janaskie, and Nick Werle, n+1
22. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs, by Greg Smith, New York Times
23. Death Takes a Policy: How a Lawyer Exploited the Fine Print and Found Himself Facing Federal Charges, by Jake Bernstein, ProPublica
Part VIII. Brave New World
24. How Companies Learn Your Secrets, by Charles Duhigg, New York Times Magazine
25. Glass Works: How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future, by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
26. Skilled Work, by Without the Worker, by John Markoff, New York Times
27. I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave, by Mac McClelland, Mother Jones
28. In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad, by Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, New York Times
29. How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking, by Mat Honan, Wired
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