Crash! The end of financial journalism?

The financial crisis could be a wakeup call for journalism as well as the banking regulators. The best session at the End of Journalism? Conference discussed the coverage of the Great Crash. There is a tendency towards crass anti-capitalist triumphalism and 20-20 hindsight in this debate. But investigative journalist Paul Lashmar avoided that temptation in his presentation which outlined how we can find out what journalism should have found out.