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Monthly Archives: December 2014

daniel ben ami

Financial journalism the failing watchdog

It has been long since established that the press have a responsibility to the public good, one such responsibility is to act as the fourth state, a watchdog over those with position and power. But when England hit financial crisis in 2008 the financial press were quick to report something they had failed to predict. Surely with their position to oversee the comings and goings of the financial world they should have foreseen what was about to unfold in their capacity as a watchdog, but they did not.

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Wikileaks and its place in journalism

Wikileaks is an international online journalistic organisations that publishes secret information including classified media from anonymous sources and news leaks. The release of some documents on Wikileaks has become front page news. The websites aim is to provide the public with information that they see it has a right to know, this involves exposing corruption amongst other things.