The Watchdog That Didn't Bark - The Financial Crisis and Disappearance of Investigative Journalism

How mainstream business news failed its readers and what it means for the future of the profession.

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Access and Accountability1. Ida Tarbell, Muckraking, and the Rise of Accountability Reporting2. Access and Messenger Boys: The Roots of Business News and the Birth of the Wall Street Journal3. Kilgore's Revolution at the Wall Street Journal: Rise of the Great Story4. Muckraking Goes Mainstream: Democratizing Financial and Technical Knowledge5. CNBCization: Insiders, Access, and the Return of the Messenger Boy6. Subprime Rises in the 1990s: Journalism and Regulation Fight Back7. Muckraking the Banks, 2000-2003: A Last Gasp for Journalism and Regulation8. Three Journalism Outsiders Unearth the Looming Mortgage Crisis9. The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Disappearance of Accountability Reporting and the Mortgage Frenzy, 2004-200610. Digitism, Corporatism, and the Future of Journalism: As the Hamster Wheel TurnsNotesBibliographyIndex

About the author

Dean Starkman is an editor and Kingsford Capital Fellow of the Columbia Journalism Review. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers, he was part of an investigative team that won a Pulitzer Prize for the Providence Journal. He is working as a fellow for the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute in New York and also holds a fellowship at the Center for Media and Communications at the Central European University, Budapest. He is also lead editor of The Best Business Writing anthology series and contributes to GoLocalProv.

Summary

How mainstream business news failed its readers and what it means for the future of the profession.

Product details

• Authors: Dean Starkman, Dean (C/o Mullane Literary) Starkman, Starkman Dean
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2015
• EAN: 9780231158190
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15819-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Columbia Journalism Review Boo; Columbia Journalism Review Books; Columbia Journalism Review Books; Columbia Journalism Review Boo
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Press & journalism, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, News media and journalism, journalism; media studies; communications