Editors' Introduction STEVE SCHIFFERES and RICHARD ROBERTS Overview: Soothsayers of Doom? LIONEL BARBER PART I The Banking Crisis and the Media 1. Willful Blindness: The Media's Power Problem DEAN STARKMAN 2. Why the Media Got It Right CHRIS ROUSH 3. The US Media and the 2009 Stimulus Package ANYA SCHIFFRIN 4. The British Media and the `First Crisis of Globalization' STEVE SCHIFFERES and SOPHIE KNOWLES 5. From Wall Street to Main Street: Australian Finance and Business Journalism and the Crisis MICHAEL BROMLEY PART II The Euro-Crisis and the Media 6. The Irish Press, Politicians, and the Celtic Tiger Economy MARK O'BRIEN 7. The Spanish Press: No Illusions ANGEL ARRESE 8. European Media Views of the Greek Crisis STYLIANOS PAPATHANASSOPOULOS PART III Challenges for the Media 9. What Are Financial Journalists For? DAMIAN TAMBINI 10. The Media and the Crisis: An Information Theoretic Approach JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ 11.Why the Public Doesn't Trust the Business Press STEVE SCHIFFERES 12. The Mediation of Financial Information Flows: Traders, Analysts, Journalists PETER A. THOMPSON 13. Paying for Crisis News: The Dilemmas of News Organizations GERBEN BAKKER PART IV The Lessons of History 14. Financial Crises and the Birth of the Financial Press, 1825-1880 JAMES TAYLOR 15. Boom, Crisis, Bust: Speculators, Promoters, and City Journalists, 1880-1914 JAMES NYE 16. `Run on the Bank': Covering the 1914 Financial Crisis RICHARD ROBERTS 17. The Pound and the Press, 1919-1972 RICHARD ROBERTS 18. `Goodbye, Great Britain'? The Press, the Treasury, and the1976 IMF Crisis DUNCAN NEEDHAM PART V Media Messengers Under Interrogation 19 UK Financial Journalists Quizzed by MPs EDITED BY JEFF HULBERT