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Steve Schifferes
Steve Schifferes was Marjorie Deane professor of financial journalism for the City University London. He created the MA programme in financial journalism in 2009, which was the United Kingdom’s first Masters course in business and economic journalism. He was a practicing economic journalist at BBC news for twenty years where he covered major economic and financial crises. Schifferes’ major research interests include the role of the media in covering financial crises, the problem of financial literacy among news audiences and the role of social media in news gathering.