In late 2001, Enron started to un-ravel. The company ultimately would disintegrate under a shroud of disinformation and corporate malfeasance. Financial communicators were transfixed to the events, witnessing in real time what would change their professional world.
Indeed, much of the regulation and increases in calls for transparency that followed can be tied to that one company and the misdeeds of a select number of executives, such as Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. After Enron, nothing would quite ...