Panel assessing financial journalism to be held in NYC next week

The New York Financial Writers Association is sponsoring a panel discussion on “Financial Journalism Under Fire:  Did We Do Our Job?” on Tuesday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, 219 West 40th Street, 3rd Floor.Â

The panel will be moderated by Myron Kandel, CNN founding financial editor.  Panelists include:  Jon Friedman, media columnist, MarketWatch; Erin Arvedlund, veteran business journalist who exposed Bernie Madoff in Barron’s in 2001; Dean Starkman, The Audit editor, Columbia Journalism Review; and Susan Lisovicz, CNN business news correspondent.Â

The panel will tackle the tough questions of whether the media did enough to expose the weaknesses in the financial system.Â

Seating is limited.  Attendees must RSVP by Friday, April 18 to nyfwa@aol.com.