Overview
Simplifying the terms and phrases that make business reporting difficult, this handbook is an essential tool for all business journalists. Including a rating system for various terminology and suggestions on word usage for difficult stories, this comprehensive stylebook offers guidance on business journalism-related legal and ethical issues on insider trading, disclosure of market-sensitive information, and whether or not a business reporter can own stock. This thorough guide is an excellent, unique resource for journalism school students, business communications students, and active reporters alike.
Full Product Details
Author: Chris Roush ,
Bill Cloud
Publisher: Marion Street Press Inc.
Imprint: Marion Street Press Inc.
Dimensions:
Width: 0.20cm
, Height: 12.70cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.226kg
ISBN: 9781933338811
ISBN 10: 1933338814
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 November 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
No newsroom should be without a copy of this thorough and handy reference. --Pamela Luecke, Reynolds professor of business journalism, Washington & Lee University
The book is an invaluable guide to helping you get business right, understand it, and explain it. Which is, of course, what we all should be trying to do. --Allan Sloan, senior editor at large, Fortune magazine An essential interpretive guide for business journalists striving to make the arcane clear to readers. Very practical references for today's changing business climate. -- Patrick Scott, business editor, Charlotte Observer A comprehensive reference tool for virtually every phrase a business or economics reporter or editor needs to know. An indispensable guide both for specialists and especially for those who get thrust into covering business or economic stories. --Greg David, editorial director, Crain's New York Business No newsroom should be without a copy of this thorough and handy reference. --Pamela Luecke, Reynolds professor of business journalism, Washington & Lee University
Author Information
Chris Roush is the Walter E Hussman Sr Distinguished Scholar at University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill. He has been quoted about business journalism in publications such as American Journalism Review, the New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Bill Cloud is a professor of copyediting at the University of North Carolina, the director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Center for Editing Excellence, and a member of the board of directors for the Educational Fund of the American Copy Editors Society. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
