Best Business Writing 2014

IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPart I. Silicon Culture1. Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley, by Evgeny Morozov2. Diary: Google Invades, by Rebecca Solnit3. Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not, by Susan Faludi4. Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross Ulbricht's Big Fail, by David KushnerPart II. Brave New Economic World5. A Tale of Two Londons, by Nicholas Shaxson6. London's Laundry Business, by Ben Judah7. How Technology and Hefty Subsidies Make U.S. Cotton King, by Robert Smith8. Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows: Dasani's Homeless Life, by Andrea Eliot9. Russell Brand and the GQ Awards: "It's Amazing How Absurd It Seems", by Russell Brand10. Maximizing Shareholder Value: The Goal That Changed Corporate America, by Jia Lynn YangPart III. Frenzied Finance11. One Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society, by Kevin Roose12. Here's Why Wall Street Has a Hard Time Being Ethical, by Chris Arnade13. How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008, by Matthew O'Brien14. Gross vs. El-Erian: Inside the Showdown Atop the World's Biggest Bond Firm, by Gregory Zuckerman amd Kirsten Grind15. Secret Currency Traders' Club Devised Biggest Market's Rates, by Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch, and Bob Ivry16. Lunch with the FT: Meredith Whitney, by Lucy Kellaway17. A Pivotal Financial Crisis Case, Ending with a Whimper, by Jesse EisingerPart IV. Unhealthy Business18. Use Only as Directed, by Jeff Gerth and T. Christian Miller19. Merchants of Meth: How Big Pharma Keeps the Cooks in Business, by Jonah Engle20. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, by Michael Moss21. League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis, by Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser, Steve Fainaru, and Mark Fainaru-WadaPart V. Creative Destruction22. How Jenna Lyons Transformed J.Crew Into a Cult Brand, by Danielle Sacks23. The Mysterious Story of the Battery Startup That Promised GM a 200-Mile Electric Car, by Steve LeVine24. The Death of the Funeral Business, by

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 for 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 nonprint winner of the Pulitzer Prize. She also investigates complaints about financial journalism for CJR's "The Audit." 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 http://www.cjr.org/author/ryan-chittum-1/.