CHAPTER 15

Business Reporting

Shishir Sinha

CHAPTER INSIGHTS

What is business news? GDP numbers, direct and indirect taxes, inflation, banking system, SENSEX-NIFTY, gold, rupee–dollar, money market, commodity market, neighbourhood kirana shops and big malls, new and old products and so on? Another question is who can become a business journalist? This chapter tries to explain the basic concept of business news, what are the issues covered as business news and what are the sources to get inflation.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • To understand what is business news
  • To understand the importance of business news
  • To understand where a journalist can get information about business news
  • To learn how to make a business news story a good story or how to ...

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