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