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'A reporter's paper' : = The "National Thrift News", journalistic autonomy, and the savings and loan crisis.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	'A reporter's paper' :/
Reminder of title:	The "National Thrift News", journalistic autonomy, and the savings and loan crisis.
Author:	Wells, Rob.
Description:	1 online resource (394 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-02A(E).
Subject:	Journalism. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369157413

'A reporter's paper' : = The "National Thrift News", journalistic autonomy, and the savings and loan crisis.
Wells, Rob.

'A reporter's paper' :The "National Thrift News", journalistic autonomy, and the savings and loan crisis. - 1 online resource (394 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

Business journalism comes under persistent criticism for serving its historic readership of brokers and business people while lacking sufficient autonomy and failing to sufficiently question or challenge powerful corporate and economic interests. This is a dominant theme in media criticism of the savings and loan crisis? and 2008 financial crisis.? Against this backdrop, this dissertation asks: Is this critique valid, and if so, how can business journalism improve? To engage these questions, this dissertation examines the question of autonomy in business journalism in an unlikely place: the trade press. The central case study is coverage of the savings and loan crisis by the National Thrift News, a small financial services newspaper that won a George Polk award for its reporting in 1988. How could a small trade newspaper succeed in some instances when larger news organizations failed to connect the dots? The National Thrift News created a newsroom environment that celebrated reporter autonomy and independence. In some cases, it used its insider knowledge and consistent beat reporting to serve both its core readers and the broader society by uncovering savings and loan corruption.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369157413Subjects--Topical Terms:

659797
Journalism.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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