The watchdog that didn't bark : the financial crisis and the disappearance of investigative reporting /

Starkman, Dean

The watchdog that didn't bark : the financial crisis and the disappearance of investigative reporting / Dean Starkman - New York : Columbia University Press, 2014 - xv, 362 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Columbia journalism review books. . - Columbia journalism review books .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-346) and index.

Access and accountability -- Ida Tarbell, muckraking, and the rise of accountability reporting -- Access and messenger boys : the roots of business news and the birth of the Wall Street journal -- Kilgore's revolution at the Wall Street journal : rise of the great story -- Muckraking goes mainstream : democratizing financial and technical knowledge -- CNBCization : insiders, access, and the return of the messenger boy -- Subprime rises in the 1990s : journalism and regulation fight back -- Muckraking the banks, 2000-2003 : a last gasp for journalism and regulation -- Three journalism outsiders unearth the looming mortgage crisis -- The watchdog that didn't bark : the disappearance of accountability reporting and the mortgage frenzy, 2004-2006 -- Digitism, corporatism, and the future of journalism : as the hamster wheel turns.

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

9780231158190 (pbk.) 023115819X (pbk.)


Crisis financiera--Estados Unidos

HB 3722 / S795w 2014