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Business Journalism: How to Report on Business and Economics
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Business Journalism: How to Report on Business and Economics

by Keith Hayes
January 2014
Beginner
248 pages
6h 8m
English
Apress
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A Brief History of Business Journalism

Business information was generally available in the popular coffeehouses of London and New York in the 18th and early 19th centuries simply by people talking to each other. Those conversations gave rise to printed news pamphlets and eventually newspapers. The Financial Times was founded in 1888; and The Wall Street Journal, still America’s biggest selling newspaper, came out a year later. So it was business and trade that helped create the journalistic profession of which you are—or wish to be—part.

As trade began to rapidly increase, the great institutions began to grow. The coffeehouses were no longer good enough or reliable enough for trade purposes, so The Bank of England, the London Stock Exchange, ...

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