How many household-name property pundits, interior designers & home experts can you name? Now the same for city or personal finance journalists? For all but extreme money nerds, I suspect the first group outnumbers the latter by 5-1 or more.

This discrepancy is important: I’ve just given an academic journal an interview on economic decline, and the role of financial journalists in the crash. Much of it wasn’t 100% relevant (it was more about City/Business journalism), but there were some interesting questions.
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