Top business journalists, economists, academics and politicians from Europe and the US joined each other in Brussels for two days in November 2009 to discuss the role of the media in the global financial crisis. The 'Covering the Crisis' conference was organized by the European Journalism Centre, EJC.
Speaking, among others, were Asgeir Jonsson, Chief Economist at Kaupthing Bank in Iceland; Former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, who now leads the European socialists; Former BBC News Online reporter Steve Schifferes, Professor in Financial Journalism at London City University; Damian Tambini, Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics; New York-based media critic Daniel Schechter; Dean Starkman, editor of 'the audit' blog for the Columbia Journalism Review; Wolfgang Munchau of the Financial Times; and representatives for news organizations such as Bloomberg News, The Deal, Barron's, BBC News, BreakingViews.com, the Economist ... Distributed by Tubemogul.
