Routledge Companion to Business Journalism

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.

• List of contributorsPART IHot Topics1 Pandora Papers: An Insider’s View of Cross-Border CollaborationDean Starkman2 Shining a Light on Tax Avoidance: How the Panama Papers Created Salience in a World Crowded with Good CausesAlexandre Gonçalves, Anya Schiffrin and Shant Fabricatorian3 No Longer a Boy’s ClubKristin Gilger and Sophie Knowles4 A Unicorn Ignored: The Case for Business News Coverage of the U.S. Latino MarketClaudia E. Cruz5 Political Bias in Business and General MediaColin H. Campbell6 Politics and the Business MediaPaul GladerPART IIFrom Backwater to Front Page7 The Historical Evolution of Economic, Business, and Financial JournalismÁngel Arrese8 Raking it in: How the Muckrakers Spurred on Business JournalismChris Roush9 “Pray for the Dead, and Fight Like Hell for the Living”Alecia Swasy10 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 SunMark A. Bernhardt11 The Cover CurseSara Silver12 The “Big Three” (Fortune, Forbes, and BusinessWeek): A Study in CompetitionAlan Deutschman13 How Business Books Became BestsellersAlan Deutschman14 A History of Art Business JournalismAlexandra BregmanPART IIISetting Themselves Apart15 Television Business News: Growth and New Audiences in an Evolving IndustryCeci Rodgers16 The Sound of Business Journalism: How the Field Thrives on Audio PlatformsJill Martin and Kaci Richter17 The Net Broadened the Base: How Technology Expanded Audiences for Business NewsJake Batsell18 Trade Journalism: Underappreciated and Often PrescientRob Wells19 Kiplinger’s Changing Times: A Case Study in the Evolution of Personal Finance JournalismRob Wells20 Starting Fresh: Entrepreneurism and Business JournalismAlyson MartinPART IVThe Political Economy of Business Journalism21 But Is It Sustainable? Exploring Journalists’ Coverage of Sustainable FinanceNadine Strauß22 The Capital, Quality Signals, and Legitimacy of Awards in Business JournalismMelony Shemberger23 Business Journalism and Public Relations: A Delicate DanceHai L. Tran and Matthew W. Ragas24 Boosterism: A Test of CommitmentDan Trigoboff25 The Journalist and the TraderStephen Kurczy26 Shareholder Activism and the Business MediaDesiree J. Hanford27 Following the Money, Not the Ball: Toward a Redefinition of Sports Business CoverageJosé Luis Rojas TorrijosPART VGlobally Speaking28 Vive la Différence? Business Journalism in its Global Uniformity and VarietyÁngel Arrese29 The Emergence of Economic Journalism in the U.K. in the 1970s and the Triumph of Neo-LiberalismSteve Schifferes30 Business Journalism in China Jeffrey Timmermans31 Entrepreneurial Business Journalism in Spanish-Speaking CountriesAlfonso Vara-Miguel and James Breiner32 Business Journalism in Ghana: How the B&FT Has Evolved over Three DecadesTheodora Dame Adjin-Tettey33 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 ShawPART VIEconomics34 Brexit and Murdoch – A Marriage Made in Hell Ivor Gaber35 Calamities UnforeseenJoe Mathewson36 The Media and Economics: Still an Unmet Challenge David R. Davies37 Black, Brown, and Thriving: Redefining Economic PodcastingAshia Aubrey and Kelli S. BolingPART VIIOn the Move38 Business Journalists on the Move: Transitioning Out of the TrenchesRon Culp39 Going Academic: Issues and Topics for Business Journalists Who Move into Higher EducationMelony ShembergerPART VIIIThe Future 40 The Looming Spread of Business News Deserts: An Outlook for Business JournalismHenrik MüllerConcluding ThoughtsRichard S. DunhamIndex