The Mediation of Financial Crises

Watchdogs, Lapdogs or Canaries in the Coal Mine?
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4331-5231-3
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 292 g

Reihe: Global crises and the media

In 2007-8 the world economy started its heady journey to recession. The Queen herself asked "why didn’t we see this coming," but it’s 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knowles, Sophie

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Finanzkrisen, Wirtschaftskrisen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Sophie Knowles is a senior lecturer in journalism at Middlesex University. After time spent working as a journalist on a financial magazine, Knowles received her PhD from Murdoch University, Australia. Her publication The Reporting of the GFC and the Declining Quality in Mainstream Financial Journalism: A Longitudinal Tri-Nation Study was published by Journalism Studies and nominated for best paper at the ICA. She is co-editor of Media and Austerity: Comparative Perspectives and Media and Economic Inequality.