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
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.