This book explores how leading news media responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, showing how journalists regularly framed discussions about post-crisis regulatory reform in ways that reinforced the same market liberal policy paradigm that had ushered in the crisis.

Adam Cox is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, where he teaches classes on journalism practice and theory. Before working in academia, he was a journalist. His career included a 20-year stint with Reuters, where he held several senior editorial roles in Europe and Asia. He has covered many of the biggest financial stories of the past 30 years, including the European currency turmoil of 1992-1993, the launch of the euro and the 2008 financial crisis.

1. Putting post-crisis journalism in perspective 2. Market liberalism on display: Regulatory coverage before the crisis 3. Framing the past: The crisis blame game 4. Framing the future: The consequences of regulation 5. An absent debate: The intersection of high finance and morality 6. Charting a way forward