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  • Formāts: 338 pages, 10 Tables, black and white; 28 Line drawings, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2014
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315754574
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  • Formāts: 338 pages, 10 Tables, black and white; 28 Line drawings, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2014
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315754574
The Media and Financial Crises provides unique insights into the debate on the role of the media in the global financial crisis. Coverage is inter-disciplinary, with contributions from media studies, political economy and journalists themselves. It features a wide range of countries, including the USA, UK, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Australia, and a completely new history of financial crises in the British press over 150 years. Editors Steve Schifferes and Richard Roberts have assembled an expert set ofcontributors, including Joseph E Stiglitz and Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times. The role of the media has been central in shaping our response to the financial crisis. Examining its performance in comparative and historical perspectives is crucial to ensuring that the media does a better job next time.The book has five distinct parts:The Banking Crisis and the MediaThe Euro-Crisis and the MediaChallenges for the MediaThe Lessons of HistoryMedia Messengers Under InterrogationThe Media and Financial Crises offers broad and coherent coverage, making it ideal for both students and scholars of financial journalism, journalism studies, media studies, and media and economic history-- The Media and Financial Crises provides unique insights into the debate on the role of the media in the global financial crisis. Coverage is inter-disciplinary, with contributions from media studies, political economy and journalists themselves. It features a wide range of countries, including the USA, UK, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Australia, and a completely new history of financial crises in the British press over 150 years. Editors Steve Schifferes and Richard Roberts have assembled an expert set of contributors, including Joseph E Stiglitz and Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times. The role of the media has been central in shaping our response to the financial crisis. Examining its performance in comparative and historical perspectives is crucial to ensuring that the media does a better job next time.The book has five distinct parts:The Banking Crisis and the MediaThe Euro-Crisis and the MediaChallenges for the MediaThe Lessons of HistoryMedia Messengers Under InterrogationThe Media and Financial Crises offers broad and coherent coverage, making it ideal for both students and scholars of financial journalism, journalism studies, media studies, and media and economic history.
List of figures and tables
viii
Notes on contributors x
Acknowledgements xiii
Editors' introduction xv
Steve Schifferes
Richard Roberts
Overview: Soothsayers of doom? xxiii
Lionel Barber
Part I The banking crisis and the media
1(72)
1 Willful blindness: The media's power problem
3(13)
Dean Starkman
2 Why the media got it right
16(12)
Chris Roush
3 The US media and the 2009 stimulus package
28(14)
Anya Schiffrin
4 The British media and the `first crisis of globalization'
42(17)
Steve Schifferes
Sophie Knowles
5 From Wall Street to Main Street: Australian finance and business journalism and the crisis
59(14)
Michael Bromley
Part II The Euro-crisis and the media
73(46)
6 The Irish press, politicians, and the Celtic Tiger economy
75(12)
Mark O'Brien
7 The Spanish press: No illusions
87(16)
Angel Arrese
8 European media views of the Greek crisis
103(16)
Stylianos Papathanassopoulos
Part III Challenges for the media
119(82)
9 What are financial journalists for?
121(19)
Damian Tambini
10 The media and the crisis: An information theoretic approach
140(13)
Joseph E. Stiglitz
11 Why the public doesn't trust the business press
153(16)
Steve Schifferes
12 The mediation of financial information flows: Traders, analysts, journalists
169(18)
Peter A. Thompson
13 Paying for crisis news: The dilemmas of news organizations
187(14)
Gerben Bakker
Part IV The lessons of history
201(76)
14 Financial crises and the birth of the financial press, 1825--1880
203(12)
James Taylor
15 Boom, crisis, bust: Speculators, promoters, and City journalists, 1880--1914
215(12)
James Nye
16 `Run on the Bank': Covering the 1914 financial crisis
227(18)
Richard Roberts
17 The pound and the press, 1919--1972
245(16)
Richard Roberts
18 `Goodbye, Great Britain'? The press, the Treasury, and the 1976 IMF crisis
261(16)
Duncan Needham
Part V Media messengers under interrogation
277(14)
19 UK financial journalists quizzed by MPs
279(12)
Jeff Hulbert
Index 291
Steve Schifferes is Marjorie Deane Professor of Financial Journalism at City University London. He covered the financial crisis for BBC News.



Richard Roberts is professor at the Institute of Contemporary British History, Kings College London. Publications include studies of HSBC, Schroders, the City, Wall Street, Bank of England and Equitable Life.