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Has the business press failed the public trust?

Below is the video of the panel held last week at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on whether business journalism failed to do its job in warning the general public before the economic crisis that began in 2008.

The panel included New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia, Felix Salmon of Reuters, and Columbia Journalism Review’s Dean Starkman. Read more about the event here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.