1st Edition
A Wall Street Guidebook for Journalism and Strategic Communication
1. Covering Corporate America
2. Understanding the Financial Fine Print
3. A Few Bumps – and Crashes on the Digital Highway
4. Putting a Face on More Numbers
5. Digging Deeper Into Data and Documents
6. Strategic Communication: Promoting Corporations and Causes
7. Ethics and Common Sense
8. Don’t Be Stupid: Understanding Securities Laws
9. A Brave New Media World
10. Advice From the Pros: Be Curious, Concise and Caffeinated
Biography
Alecia Swasy is the Donald W. Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism at Washington & Lee University. Swasy earned her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri after working for more than two decades as an editor and reporter at the Wall Street Journal, Tampa Bay Times and other publications.
Swasy is the author of Soap Opera: The Inside Story of Procter & Gamble and Changing Focus: Kodak and the Battle to Save a Great American Company, both published by Times Books. How Journalists Use Twitter: The Changing Landscape of U.S. Newsrooms, based on Swasy’s dissertation, was published by Lexington Books.
"A Wall Street Guidebook should be essential reading for every aspiring reporter in America. Money is at the heart of almost everything we write about, politics, business, sports, crime and often even love. Alecia Swasy's book is a page turner. She covers the basics of business reporting and so much more thanks to the rare access she had to the country's top business reporters and editors."
Susanne Craig, investigative reporter for the New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Trump family’s business empire.
