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Questions that financial journalists should have asked

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Alan WebberBusiness journalists asked the wrong questions in the months leading up to the global financial crisis, Fast Company magazine co-founder Alan Webber said Nov. 3 at Thunderbird during a visit to promote his new book, Rules of Thumb. “If you ask the wrong questions, you get the wrong answers,” he said. “If all you worry about is who can make the most money the fastest and become the biggest celebrity, they did a great job.” Instead, Webber said business journalists should have taken a step back and asked bigger questions.
Podcast: Thunderbird student Janet El-Saad interviews Webber (9:51)

 

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