Full Description
Financial Journalism covers the essentials of finance, business and economics in a user friendly yet authoritative way. It explains key concepts and specialised terms in plain English and draws on the expertise of some of the best known financial journalists in Britain.In this text, Marie Kinsey addresses three main questions: what is financial journalism, how does it work, and what do you need to know to be a journalist confident of working on a financial or business story? Financial Journalism is divided into five sections, each covering the main interlocking areas of financial journalism and beginning with an exposition of the main financial institutions and how financial journalism developed:The world of financial journalismReporting economicsReporting the marketsReporting businessReporting personal financeEach section contains a number of closely linked chapters with case studies and interviews with financial journalists, and ends with suggestions for further reading and a jargon checklist. The final chapter of each section will involve one or more case studies of how financial journalists choose to cover stories in that particular area, and the book concludes with a chapter on careers in financial journalism and how to get in.
Contents
Notes on the author Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part One -- The World of Financial Journalism 1. The Reporters 2. The Reported 3. Ethics: Treading the Line 4. Financial Journalists: Watchdog or Lapdog? Part Two -- Reporting Economics 5. 'It's the Economy, Stupid' 6. Taking the Economic Temperature 7. Telling the Story Part Three -- Reporting the Markets 8. The Flow of Money 9. Shares, Bonds and Foreign Exchange 10. Commodities and Futures 11. Options and Derivatives 12. Insurance 13. Telling the Story Part Four -- Reporting Business 14. The Firm 15. Decoding the Annual Report 16. Telling the Story Part Five -- Reporting Personal Finance 17. The Budget 18. Taxes and Benefits 19. Pensions 20. Savings and Investment 21. Telling the Story Afterword Getting in and getting on
