The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details "how the U.S. business press could miss the most important economic implosion of the past eighty years" (Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation).

In this sweeping, incisive post-mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He examines the deep cultural and structural shifts—some unavoidable, some self...