Business journalism
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Business journalism is the part of journalism that tracks, records, analyzes, and interprets the business, economic and financial activities and changes that take place in societies. Topics widely cover the entire purview of all commercial activities related to the economy.
This area of journalism provides news and feature articles about people, places, and issues related to the business sector. Most{{quantify|date=February 2018}} newspapers, magazines, radio, and television-news shows include a business segment. Detailed and in-depth business journalism may appear in publications, radio, and television channels dedicated specifically to business and financial journalism.{{Cite web |title=Business journalists continue to earn premium salaries; 70% report salary increases |url=https://businessjournalism.org |website=Business Journalism |date=2023 |access-date=2024-08-13}}
History
Business journalism began as early as the Middle Ages, to help well-known trading families communicate with each other.{{Cite web |url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/Digital_News_Report_2023.pdf |title=Digital News Report 2023 |publisher=Reuters Institute |access-date=2024-08-13}}
Around 1700, Daniel Defoe—best known for his novels, especially Robinson Crusoe—began publishing business and economic news.Margarett A. James, and Dorothy F. Tucker. "Daniel Defoe, Journalist." Business History Review 2.1 (1928): 2-6. In 1882 Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser began a wire service that delivered news to investment houses along Wall Street. In 1889, The Wall Street Journal began publishing. While the famous muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell did not consider herself to be a business reporter, her reporting and writing about the Standard Oil Co. in 1902 provided the template for how thousands of business journalists have covered companies ever since.{{Cite web |title=Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller |url=https://archive.org/details/takingontrustepi0000wein |publisher=W.W. Norton & Co. |date=2008 |access-date=2024-08-13}} Business coverage gained prominence in the 1990s, with wider investment in the stock market. The Wall Street Journal is one prominent example of business journalism and is among the United States of America's top newspapers in terms of both circulation and respect for the journalists whose work appears there.{{Cite web |title=How Business Journalists Can Ensure Story Sources Are Reliable |url=https://businessjournalism.org |publisher=Business Journalism |date=2023 |access-date=2024-08-13}}
Personnel
Journalists who work in this branch are classed as "business journalists". Their main task is to gather information about current events as they relate to business. They may also cover processes, trends, consequences, and important people in business and disseminate their work through all types of mass media.
Scope
Business journalism, although common in most industrialized countries, has a very limited role in third-world and developing countries. This leaves citizens of such countries in a very disadvantaged position locally and internationally.{{Cite web |url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-media-and-technology-trends-and-predictions-2023 |title=Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2023 |publisher=Reuters Institute |date=2023 |access-date=2024-08-13}} Recent efforts to bring business media to these countries have proven to be worthwhile.{{cite journal |url=http://www.inwent.org/ez/articles/191013/index.en.shtml |title=Enlightening entrepreneurs |last1=Luesby |first1=Jenny |date=February 2011 |at=Focus, Page 62 |journal=D+C Development and Cooperation |volume=52 |number=2 |publisher=Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) |access-date=25 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809030853/http://www.inwent.org/ez/articles/191013/index.en.shtml |archive-date=9 August 2011 }}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |title=Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller |last=Weinberg |first=Steve |year=2008 |publisher=W.W. Norton |location=New York |isbn=978-0-393-04935-0 |oclc=154706823 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/takingontrustepi0000wein }}
- Profits and Losses: Business Journalism and its Role in Society, Roush, Chris, 2010. Marion Street Press: Portland, OR. {{ISBN|978-1936863181}}
- Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication, Roush, Chris, 2016, Routledge: New York. {{ISBN|978-1138188389}}
External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=pLV1AwAAQBAJ&dq=business+journalism+encyclopedia+definition&pg=PA225 Definition and history of business journalism in the Encyclopedia of Journalism]
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