1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Business Journalism
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.
