Business Journalism: How to Report on Business and Economics by Keith Hayes

Business Journalism: the right way to document on enterprise and Economics is a easy consultant for newshounds operating in nations relocating to open-market economies, scholars in journalism classes, newshounds altering path from basic information reporting to company and monetary reporting, and bloggers. It additionally explains the variations in approach required for basic journalists to convey enterprise information for textual content, television, or radio.

Veteran journalist Keith Hayes, who has labored for such businesses as Reuters, PBS, the BBC, CBC, and CNBC, offers a short connection with journalistic perform that covers every little thing from the best way to meet a cut-off date to getting solutions from corporation or govt officers who might fairly now not speak. It additionally presents historical past on particular wisdom that newshounds must have to document at the company and the economic system properly and with perception. that comes with knowing the foremost markets and the way they paintings, studying to learn a stability sheet, and getting the tale even if an organization or executive units up roadblocks.

As Hayes demonstrates, powerful reporters are tale tellers who have to inform the tale good whereas guaranteeing they're delivering the evidence as they locate them and comprehend them. between different issues, readers also will study:

• How to jot down a enterprise information tale
• How to file enterprise information on tv
• How to document in a globalized enterprise world
• How to get usable info from press meetings and briefings
• The fundamentals of macroeconomics, the monetary markets, and company-specific monetary info
• How to dig for proof and get the tale

This publication covers comprehensively the fundamentals of industrial and fiscal reporting. With its insights and tips from Hayes and different veteran reporters, it’s a booklet that might stay in your shelf for years yet to come and assist you collect and cement career-enhancing talents. it's going to additionally assist you hone your craft as you start to put in writing extra refined tales and take jobs of accelerating responsibility.