The 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 contributors

PART I

Hot Topics

1 Pandora Papers: An Insider’s View of Cross-Border Collaboration

Dean Starkman

2 Shining a Light on Tax Avoidance: How the Panama Papers Created Salience in a World Crowded with Good Causes

Alexandre Gonçalves, Anya Schiffrin and Shant Fabricatorian

3 No Longer a Boy’s Club

Kristin Gilger and Sophie Knowles

4 A Unicorn Ignored: The Case for Business News Coverage of the U.S. Latino Market

Claudia E. Cruz

5 Political Bias in Business and General Media

Colin H. Campbell

6 Politics and the Business Media

Paul Glader

PART II

From Backwater to Front Page

7 The Historical Evolution of Economic, Business, and Financial Journalism

Ángel Arrese

8 Raking it in: How the Muckrakers Spurred on Business Journalism

Chris Roush

9 “Pray for the Dead, and Fight Like Hell for the Living”

Alecia Swasy

10 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 Sun

Mark A. Bernhardt

11 The Cover Curse

Sara Silver

12 The “Big Three” (Fortune, Forbes, and BusinessWeek): A Study in Competition

Alan Deutschman

13 How Business Books Became Bestsellers

Alan Deutschman

14 A History of Art Business Journalism

Alexandra Bregman

PART III

Setting Themselves Apart

15 Television Business News: Growth and New Audiences in an Evolving Industry

Ceci Rodgers

16 The Sound of Business Journalism: How the Field Thrives on Audio Platforms

Jill Martin and Kaci Richter

17 The Net Broadened the Base: How Technology Expanded Audiences for Business News

Jake Batsell

18 Trade Journalism: Underappreciated and Often Prescient

Rob Wells

19 Kiplinger’s Changing Times: A Case Study in the Evolution of Personal Finance Journalism

Rob Wells

20 Starting Fresh: Entrepreneurism and Business Journalism

Alyson Martin

PART IV

The Political Economy of Business Journalism

21 But Is It Sustainable? Exploring Journalists’ Coverage of Sustainable Finance

Nadine Strauß

22 The Capital, Quality Signals, and Legitimacy of Awards in Business Journalism

Melony Shemberger

23 Business Journalism and Public Relations: A Delicate Dance

Hai L. Tran and Matthew W. Ragas

24 Boosterism: A Test of Commitment

Dan Trigoboff

25 The Journalist and the Trader

Stephen Kurczy

26 Shareholder Activism and the Business Media

Desiree J. Hanford

27 Following the Money, Not the Ball: Toward a Redefinition of Sports Business Coverage

José Luis Rojas Torrijos

PART V

Globally Speaking

28 Vive la Différence? Business Journalism in its Global Uniformity and Variety

Ángel Arrese

29 The Emergence of Economic Journalism in the U.K. in the 1970s and the Triumph of Neo-Liberalism

Steve Schifferes

30 Business Journalism in China

Jeffrey Timmermans

31 Entrepreneurial Business Journalism in Spanish-Speaking Countries

Alfonso Vara-Miguel and James Breiner

32 Business Journalism in Ghana: How the B&FT Has Evolved over Three Decades

Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey

33 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 Shaw

PART VI

Economics

34 Brexit and Murdoch – A Marriage Made in Hell

Ivor Gaber

35 Calamities Unforeseen

Joe Mathewson

36 The Media and Economics: Still an Unmet Challenge

David R. Davies

37 Black, Brown, and Thriving: Redefining Economic Podcasting

Ashia Aubrey and Kelli S. Boling

PART VII

On the Move

38 Business Journalists on the Move: Transitioning Out of the Trenches

Ron Culp

39 Going Academic: Issues and Topics for Business Journalists Who Move into Higher Education

Melony Shemberger

PART VIII

The Future

40 The Looming Spread of Business News Deserts: An Outlook for Business Journalism

Henrik Müller

Concluding Thoughts

Richard S. Dunham

Index