The scorecard on reporting of the global financial crisis: Who's to blame for the GFC? Insights from Southeast Asia

At the 2009 AEJMC conference, journalism and mass communication panelists debated the challenges, criticisms, and responsibilities of financial reporting in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Maria B. Marron evaluated British and Irish media coverage and concludes that they failed to exercise scepticism about what was done by those in political and financial power. Zeny Sarabia-Panol and Marianne D. Sison look at the extra-media influences on reporting of the crisis in Malaysia and the Philippines. Sandhya Rao turned to the blog discussions to find a credible forum for gaining sought-after information from the financial experts. Here, she teams up with Ray Niekamp to write about blogs in the United States and China.