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

Chris Roush

In the twenty-first century, business news has shifted its focus from local coverage to national news. In The Future of Business Journalism, Chris Roush shows the causes of this recent divide, its impact on local businesses, and how the field can once again provide the content a broad society needs to make informed financial decisions.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • Publish Date: Jul 1st, 2022
  • Pages: 240
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.28in - 6.30in - 0.96in - 1.20lb
  • EAN: 9781647122560
  • Categories: JournalismBusiness Communication - GeneralMedia Studies

About the Author

Chris Roush is the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University. He previously spent seventeen years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he started its business journalism program. He is the author or coauthor of ten books, including the textbook Show Me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication. He has won awards for business journalism teaching and has taught business journalism on five continents.

Praise for this book

Overall, this book offers time-tested and novel solutions to repair business reporting in an era in which access to meaningful, trustworthy news is crucial.

-- "Choice"

A work of original, seminal, and detailed research and scholarship.

-- "Midwest Book Review"