The Future of Business Journalism: Why It Matters for Wall Street and Main Street

The information gap in business journalism is eroding civic life and impacting the economy, leaving small business owners and consumers scrambling to find the news they need to succeed. The Future of Business Journalism explores the causes and consequences of this problem and offers solutions for businesses, journalists, and media to work together to support economic and financial literacy. Chris Roush's proposal includes taking advantage of technological innovations, requiring journalism programs to require more business courses, and encouraging businesses to fund journalism school programs.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 01 July 2022
Publisher: Georgetown University Press

The information gap in business journalism is eroding civic life and impacting the economy, with only big businesses and executives able to afford expensive subscriptions. The Future of Business Journalism explores how the field evolved into this divide and offers solutions on how business journalism can once again provide the stories and content that a broad society needs. Veteran business journalist and professor Chris Roush explains the causes, reveals the consequences, and offers potential solutions to this pressing problem. He delves into how the crisis occurred, from the disintegration of the once-strong relationship between businesses and media to the media's focus on national coverage at the expense of local news. Roush's proposal for a way forward shows how businesses, journalists, and media can work together to support the economic and financial literacy needed for an informed citizenry. He recommends that media organizations take advantage of technological innovations to provide better business news content, suggests that journalism programs require budding reporters to take more business courses, and encourages businesses to fund journalism school programs. This insightful overview of the current state of business journalism reveals its strengths and weaknesses and shows how Main Street can re.

Weight: 544g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647122560