This chapter examines a legacy of problems that arise between journalists and the businesses they cover, a history that includes advertisers dictating and censoring stories, a cozy relationship that can form between reporters and corporate sources and a narrow focus on an elite audience. These conflicts date back to the emergence of the commercial advertising model in the mid-nineteenth century. Further, this chapter explores an important theoretical critique of news media and business and the political economy theory of mass communications, and it describes how the legacy does and does not apply to the National Thrift News. The newspaper used its industry ties as a reporting advantage, allowing it to navigate both roles as industry insider and as industry watchdog.
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This chapter explores the specific steps needed for business journalism to evolve to serve a broader audience. These steps include using the tools and techniques of trade-press reporters to examine businesses and hold them accountable while targeting a more general readership. The chapter describes a market for accountability business journalism where some media owners who value the public-service mission of journalism were also able to make money. The chapter describes how newsroom culture, ownership structure, business model, and in-depth focus on an industry are items that can help transform production of business journalism so that it serves the public interest. A focus on investigative journalism and collaboration with other news organizations are also central to this evolution.
{"title":"THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS JOURNALISM","authors":"Rob Wells","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvs32t97.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvs32t97.14","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the specific steps needed for business journalism to evolve to serve a broader audience. These steps include using the tools and techniques of trade-press reporters to examine businesses and hold them accountable while targeting a more general readership. The chapter describes a market for accountability business journalism where some media owners who value the public-service mission of journalism were also able to make money. The chapter describes how newsroom culture, ownership structure, business model, and in-depth focus on an industry are items that can help transform production of business journalism so that it serves the public interest. A focus on investigative journalism and collaboration with other news organizations are also central to this evolution.","PeriodicalId":315959,"journal":{"name":"The Enforcers","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116088223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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