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

By: Language: English Series: Columbia journalism review books | Columbia journalism review booksPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014Description: xv, 362 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780231158190 (pbk.)
  • 023115819X (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB 3722 S795w 2014
Contents:
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.
Summary: How mainstream business news failed its readers and what it means for the future of the profession.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HB 3722 S795w 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000164774

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.

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