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DJ6134: Business and Financial Journalism
Semester 2 | Credits: 10
Confidence that you can cover financial/business/economic news gives you a useful skill to offer and can be an advantage in getting many jobs in journalism. Financial crises and their human impact have helped project business news onto front pages and regularly dominate the news cycle, and have implications that can spread far wider than the money markets and factory floors. This module will focus on making financial news more relevant, accessible and credible to a wider audience. Making sense and use of numbers in finding and telling stories without letting them take over will be a key issue.
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- Critically and systematically analyse how the world of business and finance functions, from SMEs to transnational corporations, with reflective insights into how the activities of these institutions are reported and interpreted.
- Display a critical awareness of the structure, balance and narrative in business stories, and of the kinds of information which need to synthesised and evaluated by the professional journalist.
- Critically analyse complex issues of journalistic activity for financial reporting and communicate them effectively to colleagues and to the public.
- Develop interviewing skills with a wide range of stories and covering complex issues
- Manage the implications of practical, operational and ethical dilemmas in the specific area and work to produce solutions.
- Apply knowledge to practical writing tasks and reflect on practice.
Assessments
- Continuous Assessment (100%)
Teachers
- UINSIONN MAC DUBHGHAILL:
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- KAREN M WALSH:
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- TOM FELLE:
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- Kelly Fincham:
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- Jonathan Albright:
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Reading List
- "How to read the financial pages" by Michael Brett
ISBN: 0712662596.
Publisher: Random House Business - "How to Speak Money" by Lancaster, J
ISBN: 9780571309849.
Publisher: Faber & Faber - "Show Me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" by Chris Roush
ISBN: 0415876559.
Publisher: Routledge - "Bad News How America’s Business Press Missed the Story of the Century" by Anya Schiffrin
ISBN: 9781595587725.
Publisher: New Press - "Covering globalization" by edited by Anya Schiffrin and Amer Bisat
ISBN: 9780231131759.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.