Profits and Losses : Business Journalism and Its Role in Society

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• ISBN13: 9781933338057
• ISBN10: 1933338059
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Marion Street Pr

Summary

Recognizing the historical importance of business news in America's journalistic past, this book asserts that current social attitudes were set in place by 20th-century reporting on finance, business trends, markets, unemployment, governmental economic policy, corporate malfeasance, andperhaps most importantthe consumer. According to this analysis, breakthroughs in automobile safety, food and drug regulation, and public health were brought about by the scrutiny of the national press, and news coverage of the business response to problems of pollution, energy, and global trade remains critical to debates of the future.

Author Biography

Chris Roush is a professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina, the director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, and lead trainer at the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. He is the author of Inside Home Depot: How One Company Revolutionized an Industry by Relentless Pursuit of Growth and Show Me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Introduction	8	(6)
Business journalism's beginning	14	(8)
The first real business publications --- and journalists	22	(17)
The muckrakers and business	39	(14)
A depression in business journalism	53	(17)
The effects of public relations and advertising	70	(17)
The business magazine changes everything	87	(15)
The rise of The Wall Street Journal	102	(15)
Business journalism on radio and TV	117	(18)
Business journalism begins to prosper	135	(17)
The roaring `90s	152	(16)
The business media and the auto industry	168	(16)
Business news on the Internet	184	(14)
The scandals that were missed	198	(13)
Media and Wall Street	211	(14)
Business media and society	225	(11)
Acknowledgements	236	(1)
Index	237