Business Journalism

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw is Senior Lecturer in Media and Politics at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is author of Human Rights Journalism (2012) and co-editor of Expanding Peace Journalism (2012). He is also co-editor of Communicating Differences (forthcoming 2016) and obtained his PhD from the Sorbonne. He has a background in journalism spanning 20 years, having worked in Sierra Leone, Britain and France.

The experience is that many of the NCTJ accredited courses are mostly vocationally driven and do not tend to encourage their students to buy these type of texts. I would instead explore other markets such as business schools and media departments that tend to be overall more academically driven. I think the book can sell well, but the marketing strategy needs to consider wider markets. – Jairo Lugo-Ocando, University of Sheffield, UKThere are several other textbooks available about financial journalism, but none offers the philosophic context this book proposes... I teach [...] a course entitled Reporting on the Economy each winter [...] I can imagine using all or part of this book for the Economy class. – Pam Luecke, Washington and Lee University, USAThis book definitely is useful for my students to understand the complex world of business journalism and how they can better prepare themselves should they choose a career in business journalism. The book’s global perspectives would make it popular with students other than those from Britain.– Victor Fung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

• 1. Introduction – Background and Rational of the Political Economy of Business Journalism 1.1 Why study the political economy of business journalism? 1.2 What makes this book different from others specialising in business journalism? 1.3 The Triple Political Economic Crisis of Business Journalism Part 1: The crisis in the political economy of global capitalism 2. The Political economy of business and journalism: From paradox to crisis of capitalism 2.1 Political Economy of journalism and Public Business Journalism 2.2 Capitalism, anti-capitalism and the Business model of journalism 3. Crisis in the political economy of journalism and global capitalism 3.1 Corporate Journalism and Public Business Journalism 3.2 A social problem of political economic communication as corporate journalism 4. From Muckraking to Investigative Journalism: The Standard Oil Company and Enron Scandals 4.1 History of watchdog journalism, corporate scandals, and global capitalism 4.2 The Muckraking Movement and Corporate Corruption 4.3 From Muckraking to investigative Journalism—A comparative analysis involving Standard Oil and Enron Scandals Part 2: The crisis in the political economic reporting of financial crisis 5. Reporting Business and Finance in Crisis of Identity! From Business Journalism to Financial Journalism? 5.1 From Business Journalism to Financial Journalism? A critical historical and conceptual exploration 5.2 Modernity and Postmodernity 5.3 Macroeconomics and Microeconomics 6. Reporting Financial Crisis in Crisis! Critical comparative study of the reporting of the Subprime Mortgage Loan and Horsemeat Scandals 6.1 Crisis in the political economic reporting of financial crisis 6.2 A comparative study of the reporting of the Subprime Mortgage crisis and the Horsemeat Scandal in the UK Part 3: The crisis in the political economy of business journalism 7. Comparing ethical challenges of business journalism in the US, UK, China, and India 7.1 Free Speech, Privacy and Watchdog journalism: UK, USA, India and China 7.2 Conflicts of Interest: UK, USA, India and China 8. Challenges of Business Journalism in the Digital Age 8.1 Debates in the challenges of ‘digital’ and ‘convergence journalism’: Multi-media/convergence journalism 8.2 New media, service journalism and public business journalism 8.3 Framing the Bent iPhone 6 Scandal in the UK press and blogosphere 9. Conclusion – Towards Public Business Journalism 9.1 The Triple crisis of the political economy of business and journalism 9.2 Some alternative counter-hegemonic models that support Public Business Journalism 9.3 Movements and NGOs working to promote the ideas of public business journalism