The Mediation of Financial Crises

Sophie Knowles is a Senior Lecturer in the Media Department at Middlesex University, London. Knowles received her PhD from Murdoch University, Australia. She is co-editor of Media and Austerity: Comparative Perspectives and Media and Economic Inequality and numerous other publications on the media's representation of finance and the economy.

List of Figures – Foreword – Financial Journalism Then and Now: Why Should We Care? – Challenges and Pressures in Financial Journalism – Case Study I: The Recession of the Early 1990s; the Recession We "Had to Have"? – Case Study II: The "Irrationally Exuberant" Dot Com Boom of 2000–1 – The Global Financial Crisis: "Why Did Nobody See It Coming?" – Financial Journalism in the Digital Age – Does Alternative News Provide Alternatives? – Beyond the Crisis – Appendix: Methodology for Assessing the Financial Press – Index.

“Well-grounded and solidly illustrated with several case studies, Sophie Knowles provides a powerful indictment about the past history and current state of financial journalism. An incisive account that revisits what have we learnt since the financial meltdown of 2008 that almost brought down the world economy and that has cost years of austerity against the poorest in society. In a time in which financial corporate players are back to many of their ‘esoteric’ greed and unregulated practices, this book presents not only a welcomed reflection but an urgent call for action by those of us who believe in a better and more just society.”—Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Professor, Northwestern University, Qatar

“With the benefit of hindsight, Sophie Knowles is able to look back on the great financial crisis of 2008 to see how little has changed and why we still need investigative journalists to educate the public and hold companies to account.”—Anya Schiffrin, Director of Technology, Media, and Communications, Columbia University, New York