Was the financial press asleep at the switch as the biggest business story since the Great Depression unfolded? In “Financial Journalism Under Fire: Did We Do Our Jobs?” a panel discussion sponsored by the New York Financial Writers Association, four journalists tried
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to answer that question. “I think the media didn’t do a very good job, for a very interesting reason — lack of knowledge,” said Jon Friedman, columnist for MarketWatch.com. He was joined by Erin Arvedlund, the first reporter to question Bernard Madoff’s business strategies in a 2001 Barron’s article; CNN stock market correspondent Susan Lisovicz, and Dean Starkman, managing editor of The Audit. Former CNN financial editor Myron Kandel moderated the discussion at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
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