Via Romanesko because I hadn’t checked the RSS reader yet, Dean Starkman posted a list of “inconvenient truths” for the business press on his Audit column at the Columbia Journalism Review.
“The current generation of business reporters is probably the best-educated and most sophisticated ever. Everyone knows it entirely capable of providing the needed scrutiny and requisite skepticism, if properly directed. So it seems we have a leadership problem…That said, it is undoubtedly true that the ranks of business journalism have been thinned of its most experienced hands due to the media’s financial troubles, and investigative reporting has become the domain of a surprisingly small elite. There has been a price paid for this. Again, this is an issue for business media leadership.”
Pointed and true. Here’s the read for more.
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