The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Reporting

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Access and Accountability

1. Ida Tarbell, Muckraking, and the Rise of Accountability Reporting

2. Access and Messenger Boys: The Roots of Business News and the Birth of the Wall Street Journal

3. Kilgore’s Revolution at the Wall Street Journal: Rise of the Great Story

4. Muckraking Goes Mainstream: Democratizing Financial and Technical Knowledge

5. CNBCization: Insiders, Access, and the Return of the Messenger Boy

6. Subprime Rises in the 1990s: Journalism and Regulation Fight Back

7. Muckraking the Banks, 2000–2003: A Last Gasp for Journalism and Regulation

8. Three Journalism Outsiders Unearth the Looming Mortgage Crisis

9. The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Disappearance of Accountability Reporting and the Mortgage Frenzy, 2004–2006

10. Digitism, Corporatism, and the Future of Journalism: As the Hamster Wheel Turns