Business Journalism

Keith Hayes enjoyed a successful career as a journalist and broadcaster, working at leading news organizations CBC, BBC, CNBC, PBS, and Reuters. He was Head of News at CJOR, a Canadian radio station in Vancouver, before joining BBC news in Northern Ireland. He led a business news unit at Reuters, which involved being bureau chief and London anchor for the American daily coast-to-coast business television programs Morning & Nightly Business Reports, ending his broadcast career at CNBC in London. While at Reuters, he designed and implemented, for The Reuters Foundation, numerous business-news training courses for overseas journalists. He subsequently helped to develop television stations in Russia and Kosovo, while running journalists' training courses in Hong Kong, India, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Bosnia, Lithuania, Latvia, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Jordan, as well as London. He is a partner in First Freedom Distribution, which gathers news video footage for global distribution and is a part time senior lecturer in journalism in London. He has written numerous training manuals for young journalists and reporters working in transitional economies as well as a book on business reporting for television. He is married with a daughter and two grandchildren and is a member of London's Travellers Club.

• Establishing Good Journalistic Practices Writing an Effective Business News Article Writing for the Different Business News Media Establishing Sources of Information Enterprise Reporting Ethics and Change Making Economic Reporting Relevant Getting the Best from Press Conferences and Briefings Television Reporting Skills Reporting on Business for Television Newswires and their Role Getting the Pictures Writing and Reporting for New Media Macroeconomics Globalization and Comparisons with Neighboring Economies Stock and Bond Markets Markets for Commodities and Exotic Financial Products Investigating Company Accounts and Assessing the Board Privatization SMEs and the Economy The Importance of a Census Current Reporting: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly The Pros Speak Sample Balance Sheet