In the midst of the current financial turmoil business journalism is becoming required reading as never before. People want to know what's happening and why. City insiders, who also want someone to make sense of the crisis, are turning in increasing numbers to a specialist website, breakingviews.com. It features comment and analysis by 25 journalists regarded as experts in the field.
I have written about the site in my London Evening Standard column today. A 26th writer will soon by offering his commentaries on breakingviews. Chris Hughes is leaving the Financial Times to rejoin the site as a senior editor.
