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1 online resource. |
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Columbia Journalism Review Books |
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Columbia journalism review books.
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Electronic book. |
| Contents |
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 financial collapse, 2004-2006 -- Digitism, corporatism, and the future of journalism : as the hamster wheel turns. |
| Summary |
In this sweeping, incisive study, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Dividing journalism into two competing approaches?access reporting and accountability reporting?he connects the financial collapse to what happens when the former overwhelms the latter and reporters lose sight of their public role. Starkman travels back to the early twentieth century and juxtaposes the work of reporters against other forms of journalism, particularly muckraking. These two genres merged when m. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Financial crises -- Press coverage -- United States.
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Investigative reporting -- United States.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Starkman, Dean. Watchdog That Didn't Bark : The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2014 9780231158183 |
| ISBN |
9780231536288 (electronic bk.) |
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0231536283 (electronic bk.) |
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