The Mediation of Financial Crises: Watchdogs, Lapdogs or Canaries in the Coal Mi

Description: The Mediation of Financial Crises by Sophie Knowles This book assesses the degree to which financial and economics journalists have played a watchdog role for society and provides evidence that journalists, like bankers and regulators, need to be held accountable or the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In 2007-8 the world economy started its heady journey to recession. The Queen herself asked "why didnt we see this coming," but its a question that remains unanswered. A decade later and it is still not clear exactly who is responsible for the crisis. The world has experienced the long-term impact of austerity policies on its welfare system and the political landscape is completely changed.This analysis of the media that reported on this crisis and where it came from is long overdue. The media were responsible for warning the public—a role they failed in. This book provides evidence that journalists, like bankers and regulators, need to be held accountable. The Global Financial Crisis is a starting point, but it deserves a much wider context and explanation, one this book provides for the first time. Looking at three global and pivotal financial crises, this book assesses the degree to which financial and economics journalists have played a watchdog role for society. It takes a long glance back from the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 to look at the (as it shows, gradually narrowing) content we have been reading in mainstream publications, and speaks to journalists in three countries to gauge the reality of the situation from the perspective of the newsroom. Author Biography Sophie Knowles is a Senior Lecturer in the Media Department at Middlesex University, London. Knowles received her PhD from Murdoch University, Australia. She is co-editor of Media and Austerity: Comparative Perspectives and Media and Economic Inequality and numerous other publications on the medias representation of finance and the economy. Table of Contents List of Figures – Foreword – Financial Journalism Then and Now: Why Should We Care? – Challenges and Pressures in Financial Journalism – Case Study I: The Recession of the Early 1990s; the Recession We "Had to Have"? – Case Study II: The "Irrationally Exuberant" Dot Com Boom of 2000–1 – The Global Financial Crisis: "Why Did Nobody See It Coming?" – Financial Journalism in the Digital Age – Does Alternative News Provide Alternatives? – Beyond the Crisis – Appendix: Methodology for Assessing the Financial Press – Index. Review "This crisply written and compelling book does the business press the honour of taking it and its role seriously, giving credit where it is due, acknowledging the challenges it faces, but forthrightly and illuminatingly holding it to account where deserved. And it often is.The books historical and comparative approach, comparing coverage of the 2008 crisis to previous modern crises, provides vital context for the presss buy-in to a deregulatory agenda and other pro-industry assumptions. And by comparing the presss role in different countries—in the U.S., U.K. and Australia—it exposes how group-think, as she rightly calls it, crossed borders and took over Anglo-Saxon newsrooms. And to her great credit, Sophie Knowles gets out into the field to asks the press for its side of the story, through qualitative interviews that add another essential dimension to the analysis.As we continue to struggle through a post-crisis world, Knowles challenges the press to do better—to marshal its formidable resources and talents to puncture the myths that got us here and to help build a more stable future.The Mediation of Financial Crises is a vital contribution to our understanding of the financial press and of the press in general."—Dean Starkman, Senior Editor, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists; Author, The Watchdog That Didnt Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism Review Quote "With the benefit of hindsight, Sophie Knowles is able to look back on the great financial crisis of 2008 to see how little has changed and why we still need investigative journalists to educate the public and hold companies to account."--Anya Schiffrin, Director of Technology, Media, and Communications, Columbia University, New York Details ISBN1433152304 Author Sophie Knowles Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc Year 2020 ISBN-10 1433152304 ISBN-13 9781433152306 Format Hardcover Short Title The Mediation of Financial Crises Language English Subtitle Watchdogs, Lapdogs or Canaries in the Coal Mine? Series Number 25 Pages 186 Publication Date 2020-10-30 UK Release Date 2020-10-30 Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-10-30 NZ Release Date 2020-10-30 US Release Date 2020-10-30 Illustrations 28 Illustrations, unspecified Edition Description New edition Series Global Crises and the Media Alternative 9781433152313 DEWEY 070.4493309410905 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130362106;

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