Closely examining how the news media reports economic and financial matters, this book equips students with solid methodological skills for reading and interpreting the news alongside a toolkit for best practice as an economic journalist.
How to Read Economic News combines theory and practice to explore the discourse surrounding economics in the mass media and how this specialised form of reporting can be improved. Beginning by introducing major concepts such as financialised economic reporting, media amnesia and loss of trust, the book goes on to help students to interpret, understand and analyse existing news discourse and to identify subtle biases in news reports stemming from hegemonic belief systems. The final section puts this analytical knowledge into practice, providing students with methods for the critical production of news and covering such skills as identifying newsworthiness, story sourcing, achieving clarity, and using complex datasets in news stories.
This is a key text for students and academics in the fields of financial journalism and critical discourse analysis who wish to approach the subject with a critical eye.
Edited by:
Henry Silke,
Fergal Quinn,
Maria Rieder
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367724269
ISBN 10: 036772426X
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 31 August 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Chapter 1: Introduction – How to Read Economic News Henry Silke Fergal Quinn Maria Rieder Part I: Connecting economic theory, ideology and journalism Chapter 2: Economic Imaginaries, Economics Theories And The Role Of Economic Journalism Hendrik Theine Chapter 3: What can journalism learn from Heterodox Economics Andrea Grisold Chapter 4: Ideology, Economics and Journalism Henry Silke Chapter 5: Journalism Studies and Crises: Economic, Environmental and Political - Towards a political Economic Approach. Paschal Preston Part II: Methodological approaches for evaluation of economy-related media output Chapter 6: Using Content Analysis to study Economic Journalism Fergal Quinn Muireann Prendergast Chapter 7: Analysing Economic News Sources: Who gets to speak? Henry Silke Chapter 8: Corpus Linguistics and Economic Media research Brian Clancy Elaine Vaughan Chapter 9: Breaking Down the Discourse, Exposing Power in Economic Journalism – Critical Discourse Analysis Maria Rieder Hendrik Theine Chapter 10: Deconstructing Economic Discourses on Broadcast News Ciara Graham Brendan O’Rourke Chapter 11: Deconstructing Discourse: Applying Interview Research in the Economic Newsroom Sophie Knowles Nadine Strauß Chapter 12: Researching Audiences: Understanding how economic news is received Mike Berry Part III: News production: Best practices for investigating economic and business stories Chapter 13: Making sense of economic data Donal Palcic Darragh Flannery Chapter 14: Economic news approaches Audrey Galvin Brian Hurley Chapter 15: Where theory meets practice - tips for BETTER economic journalism Fergal Quinn Maria Rieder Henry Silke Index
Henry Silke is a lecturer in Journalism at the University of Limerick. His research interests include ideology and how it manifests in the media. He has previously published work looking at the role of journalism in economic and political crises. Fergal Quinn is a lecturer in Journalism at the University of Limerick. He worked for over a decade as a print and multimedia journalist. His research interests include the representation of minorities and societal inequality in journalism output, and journalism training, particularly in developing-world and post-conflict environments. Maria Rieder is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick. Her research is concerned with the critical role of language in situations of economic and social inequality. She has been involved in research on media and social protest, issues of immigration and asylum, critical intercultural communication and minority languages and economics. Her published work focuses on social and economic inequality, human rights and minority communities.
