"The Great Recession: How Should Journalism Respond?" will feature a panel of top financial journalists who will discuss what the press corps did well, and not so well, in covering the financial crisis of the last year.

The Moderator

Ken Auletta

Ken Auletta has written Annals of Communications columns and profiles for The New Yorker magazine since 1992. He is the author of eleven books, including five national bestsellers. Ken’s most recent book is Googled: The End of The World As We Know It..   Auletta captured the ethos of Wall Street in the mid-eighties before insider trading scandals burst into our consciousness with his Greed And Glory On Wall Street.  Auletta was also among the first to popularize the so-called information superhighway with his profile of Barry Diller's search for something new.   Auletta was chosen a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, and one of the 20th Century's top 100 business journalists. He was a member of the Columbia Journalism School Task Force assembled to help reshape its curriculum. He has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror and twice been a Trustee of PEN. He is a member of the New York Public Library's Emergency Committee for the Research Libraries, of the Author's Guild, PEN, and of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The Panel

Matthew Bishop

Matthew Bishop is the American Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief for The Economist. He was previously The Economist's London-based Business Editor. Bishop is now writing a book about the current economic crisis, and what must be done to improve how capitalism works. He is the author of several Economist special survey supplements, including "The Business of Giving"; "Kings of Capitalism", an influential analysis of the private-equity industry; and "Capitalism and its Troubles", an examination of the impact of problems such as the collapse of Enron.  Before joining The Economist, Bishop was on the faculty of London Business School. He has served as a member of the Sykes Commission on the investment system in the 21st Century. He was also on the Advisors Group of the United Nations International Year of Microcredit 2005. He has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.  Bishop is a graduate of Oxford University.
 

Chrystia Freeland

Crystia Freeland is the US managing editor of the Financial Times. She leads the editorial development of the paper’s US edition and of US news on FT.com.  Freeland’s expertise lies in the history and culture of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  She received her Bachelor’s degree in History and Literature from Harvard University, and earned a Master of Studies degree from St. Anthony’s College at Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.  Freeland is the author of Sale of a Century: the Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution (2000), which details Russia’s journey from communism to capitalism. Her profile of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which appeared in the FT Magazine, won ‘Best Energy Submission’ at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards in 2004.

David Schlesinger

David Schlesinger has been Editor-in-Chief of Reuters since January 2007, leading the 2,500 editorial staff in text, television and pictures strategically and operationally. Based in London, he was Global Managing Editor from October 2003 until he began his current role. David previously was Executive Vice President and Editor, Americas, running operations in North, Central and South America between 2000 and October, 2003. David transferred to New York in 1995 as Financial Editor for the Americas and also served as Managing Editor for the Americas. David joined Reuters in 1987 in Hong Kong as a correspondent. He then ran Reuters editorial operations in Taiwan, China and the Greater China region in a series of posts between 1989 and 1995. Prior to joining Reuters he wrote for a variety of publications from Hong Kong and had an early career as a teacher. David graduated from Oberlin College and has a Masters degree from Harvard University, where he concentrated on Chinese politics.
 

Andy Serwer

Andy  Serwer has been managing editor of Fortune since October 2006.  Serwer joined Fortune  in 1985 as an intern from the Columbia Journalism School, and was later promoted to associate editor.  Serwer was named 2000 Business Journalist of the Year by TJFR Business News Reporter, and Marketing Computers also ranked him sixth on its “Top Ten Web” list of Internet journalists. Due to his success as business anchor of CNN’s American Morning, Serwer continues to be a regular contributor on a variety of programs produced by CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and other broadcast outlets. Serwer also does a weekly video that appears on CNNMoney.com, Fortune’s online home, as part of his “Street Life” series, a market round-up.  Serwer received a B.A. in history from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, graduating with departmental honors in 1981. He received an MBA from Emory University in Atlanta and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.

Josh Tyrangiel

Josh Tyrangiel is currently editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek . Prior to joining Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Tyrangiel was deputy managing editor of Time magazine and managing editor of TIME.com. He oversaw publication of Time 100, the magazine’s most profitable annual issue, and the 2009 Michael Jackson memorial issue. Tyrangiel joined Time in 1999, holding various positions including assistant managing editor, national editor, and London correspondent. He began his journalistic career at Rolling Stone and Vibe magazines and MTV Networks.  Tyrangiel received a M.A. in American Studies from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.