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What’s that coming over the hill…
Fresh reports of the coming of a Fox News business channel. Of course, Rupert Murdoch has been promising to get one off the blocks since 2004, but now he’s so serious he’s even cracking jokes: “…we have to recruit some money honeys,” chuckled Murdoch, referring to the now-trademarked nickname of CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo. Slate‘s…
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Financial journalism
According to Harvard Business School professor Greg Miller, financial journalists uncover nearly a third of major accounting scandals. He presents this as positive evidence of the business media’s ‘watchdog’ role. In the course of an interview with Harvard’s Working Knowledge he also passes on this nugget: There’s always going to be someone in the press…