The Media and Economic Scandals: Corporate and State Misgovernance - Is the Media Culpable Too?

Journalists and scholars will discuss the media?s watchdog role in recent spate of U.S. and international economic scandals.

Panels:

1. Enron, the California Electricity Crisis, and Corporate Misgovernance

2. Russia, China, and Economic Bubbles.

Participating journalists/scholars:

Richard Waters, West Coast bureau chief for the Financial Times;

John Emshwiller of The Wall Street Journal, co-author of "24 Days," a book on the 2001 Enron collapse;

Bethany McLean, Fortune magazine and co-author of "The Smartest Guys in the Room," a book on the Enron collapse;

Bill Powell, Fortune magazine's Chief International correspondent and author of, "Treason: How a Russian Spy led an American journalist to a U.S. Double Agent";

Edward Lucas, former Moscow correspondent for the Economist magazine;

Frank Partnoy, professor of Law at the University of California at San Diego, and author of "Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets."