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Increasingly, we can't trust journalists to decipher finance

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In the fallout of the 2008 global financial crisis, the financial media were criticised for failing to fulfil a watchdog role, for boosting the global asset boom that contributed to the crisis, and for exacerbating the crisis when it happened.

Among the strongest accusations was that financial...

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Watchdog role still important to Australia's future journalists

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Journalism programs at Australian universities came under industry fire last year for ill-preparing students to work in mainstream journalism.

But a new study suggests that students do learn to think like journalists as they progress in their courses, and learn to increasingly value the traditional journalists' watchdog role of...

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