Financial Journalism

Marie Kinsey is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, Course Leader for the PgDip/MA Broadcast Journalism and Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching for the Faculty of Social Sciences. She has spent 25 years as a journalist working in newspapers, radio and television. For 15 of those years she specialised in financial journalism and worked as a presenter, reporter and deputy editor on many financial and business programmes.In 1990 she received a prestigious Wincott Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism. She is co-author of Key Concepts in Journalism Studies (2005) and co-editor of A Guide to Commercial Radio Journalism (2nd Edition, 1998) and Broadcast Journalism: A Critical Introduction (2008).

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