1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Business Journalism
The Routledge Companion to Business Journalism provides a complete and critical survey of the field of business and economic journalism.
Beginning by exploring crucial questions of the moment, the volume goes on to address such topics as the history of the field; differentiation among business journalism outlets; issues and forces that shape news coverage; globalism; personal finance issues; and professional concerns for practicing business journalists. Critical perspectives are introduced, including: gender and diversity matters on the business news desk and in business news coverage; the quality of coverage, and its ideological impact and framework; the effect of the internet on coverage; differences in approaches around the world; ethical issues; and education among journalists. Contributions are drawn from around the world and include work by leading names in the industry, as well as accomplished and rising-star academics.
This book is an essential companion to advanced scholars and researchers of business and financial journalism as well as those with overlapping interests in communications, economics, and sociology.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Joseph Weber
Part One: Hot Topics
Chapter One: Pandora Papers: An Insider’s View of Cross-Border Collaboration Dean Starkman
Chapter Two: Shining a Light on Tax Avoidance: How the Panama Papers Created Salience in a World Crowded with Good Causes
Alexandre Gonçalves, Anya Schiffrin and Shant Fabricatorian
Chapter Three: No Longer a Boy’s Club
Kristin Gilger and Sophie Knowles
Chapter Four: A Unicorn Ignored: The Case for Business News Coverage of the U.S. Latino Market
Claudia Cruz
Chapter Five: Political Bias in Business and General Media
Colin H. Campbell
Chapter Six: Politics and the Business Media
Paul Glader
Part Two: From Backwater to Front Page
Chapter Seven: The Historical Evolution of Economic, Business and Financial Journalism
Ángel Arrese
Chapter Eight: Raking It In: How the Muckrakers Spurred on Business Journalism
Chris Roush
Chapter Nine: “Pray for the Dead, and Fight Like Hell for the Living.”
Alecia Swasy
Chapter Ten: Siding against Labor in the Last Great American Union Town: Coverage of the 1984 Casino Workers Strike by The Las Vegas Review-Journal and Las Vegas Sun
Mark A. Bernhardt
Chapter Eleven: The Cover Curse
Sara Silver
Chapter Twelve: The “Big Three” (Fortune, Forbes and BusinessWeek): A Study in Competition
Alan Deutschman
Chapter Thirteen: How Business Books Became Bestsellers
Alan Deutschman
Chapter Fourteen: A History of Art Business Journalism
Alexandra Bregman
Part Three: Setting Themselves Apart
Chapter Fifteen: Television Business News: Growth and New Audiences in an Evolving Industry
Ceci Rodgers
Chapter Sixteen: The Sound of Business Journalism: How the Field Thrives on Audio Platforms
Jill Martin and Kaci Richter
Chapter Seventeen: The Net Broadened the Base: How Technology Expanded Audiences for Business News
Jake Batsell
Chapter Eighteen: Trade Journalism: Underappreciated and Often Prescient
Rob Wells
Chapter Nineteen: Kiplinger’s Changing Times: A Case Study in the Evolution of Personal Finance Journalism
Rob Wells
Chapter Twenty: Starting Fresh: Entrepreneurism and Business Journalism
Alyson Martin
Part Four: The Political Economy of Business Journalism
Chapter Twenty-One: But is it Sustainable? Exploring Journalists’ Coverage of Sustainable Finance
Nadine Strauß
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Capital, Quality Signals and Legitimacy of Awards in Business Journalism
Melony Shemberger
Chapter Twenty-Three: Business Journalism and Public Relations: A Delicate Dance
Hai L. Tran and Matthew W. Ragas
Chapter Twenty-Four: Boosterism: A Test of Commitment
Dan Trigoboff
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Journalist and the Trader
Stephen Kurczy
Chapter Twenty-Six: Shareholder Activism and the Business Media
Desiree J. Hanford
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Following the Money, Not the Ball: Towards a Redefinition of Sports Business Coverage
Jose Luis Rojas Torrijos
Part Five: Globally Speaking
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Vive la Différence? Business Journalism in its Global Uniformity and Variety
Ángel Arrese
Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Emergence of Economic Journalism in the U.K. in the 1970s and the Triumph of Neo-Liberalism
Steve Schifferes
Chapter Thirty: Business Journalism in China
Jeffrey Timmermans
Chapter Thirty-One: Entrepreneurial Business Journalism in Spanish-speaking Countries
Alfonso Vara-Miguel and James Breiner
Chapter Thirty-Two: Business Journalism in Ghana: How The B&FT Has Evolved Over Three Decades
Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey
Chapter Thirty-Three: Missing the Big Picture: Journalists in Sierra Leone provided incomplete coverage of the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war
Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Part Six: Economics
Chapter Thirty-Four: Brexit and Murdoch – A Marriage Made in Hell
Ivor Gaber
Chapter Thirty-Five: Calamities Unforeseen
Joe Mathewson
Chapter Thirty-Six: The Media and Economics: Still an Unmet Challenge
David R. Davies
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Black, Brown and Thriving: Redefining Economic Podcasting
Ashia Aubrey and Kelli S. Boling
Part Seven: On the Move
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Business Journalists on the Move: Transitioning Out of the Trenches
Ron Culp
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Going Academic: Issues and Topics for Business Journalists Who Move into Higher Education
Melony Shemberger
Part Eight: The Future
Chapter Forty: The Looming Spread of Business News Deserts: An Outlook for Business Journalism
Henrik Müller
Concluding thoughts
Richard S. Dunham
Index
Biography
Joseph Weber is the Jerry and Karla Huse Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He spent 22 years reporting and writing for BusinessWeek, serving in various bureaus and leaving as Chief of Correspondents.
Richard S. Dunham is co-director of the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He is a past president of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute.
