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Tag: Financial Journalism

  • Understanding journalism’s complicity in the financial crisis

    The normally thorough Howard Kurtz has a piece running entitled Press May Own a Share in Financial Mess. A flavour?

  • Robert Peston’s sources

    To hear Robert Peston‘s account of the financial crisis you might wonder where he gets his information. He is a terrific reporter and seeker-out-of-scoops. But at what point does a journalist with really cut-glass sources stop being a journalist and start being – well – a cypher?

  • Great financial reporting

    Now if there were more of this in the new News Corp. Wall Street Journal…Marc Andreessen has a great annotated version of a letter to investors in a collapsed hedge fund. It’s so good, I make no apology for running it in full: …the letter Sowood [the hedge fund] wrote to its investors is a…

  • Paid content: the Dow Jones bid

    The value of financial journalism and high-quality journalism is that you can charge for it. Rupert MurdochHere’s the best take on the Dow Jones bid, written back in January 2007 by David Warsh: It is the ticker and its history that is the secret of why the On-line WSJ makes so much money on the…