The Enforcers

How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism

Rob Wells (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2019
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04294-2 (ISBN)

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In the 1980s, real estate developer and banker Charles H. Keating executed one of the largest savings and loans frauds in United States history. Keating had long used the courts to muzzle critical reporting of his business dealings, but aggressive reporting by a small trade paper called the National Thrift News helped bring down Keating and offered an inspiring example of business journalism that speaks truth to power. Rob Wells tells the story through the work of Stan Strachan, a veteran financial journalist who uncovered Keating's misdeeds and links to a group of US senators—the Keating Five—who bullied regulators on his behalf. Editorial decisions at the National Thrift News angered advertisers and readers, but the newsroom sold ownership on the idea of investigative reporting as a commercial opportunity. Examining the National Thrift News's approach, Wells calls for a new era of business reporting that can and must embrace its potential as a watchdog safeguarding the interests of the public.

Rob Wells is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Arkansas and a former journalist with the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and the Associated Press.

CoverTitle pageCopyrightCONTENTSFOREWORDACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION1. THE REPORTER AND HIS INDUSTRY2. THE ENFORCERS3. THE DEVELOPER4. ADVERTISING AND CONTROVERSY5. KEATING’S WAR WITH THE PRESSPhotographs6. MEDIA AND THE KEATING FIVE7. “THE CHARLES KEATING OF FLORIDA”8. THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS JOURNALISMAPPENDIXNOTESIndexBack Cover

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	The History of Media and Communication
Zusatzinfo	11 black & white photographs, 8 charts, 4 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-04294-8 / 0252042948
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04294-2 / 9780252042942
Zustand	Neuware