Why financial journalists didn’t cover the Blackstone deal

Gretchen Morgenson

The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee spoke with Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times business desk about why most of the financial media — except for Bloomberg News — failed to cover a credit default swap deal by the Blackstone Group.

She then asked the business desk of BuzzFeed how they would cover the story.

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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.