Business journalists need specialized finance training

Newspaper Research Journal, Spring 2002 by Ludwig, Mark Donald

Along similar lines, it would be interesting to examine what journalism programs are doing to prepare future leagues of journalists. What business training do they offer? What do they require? What interest have they found among undergraduates for such training? Do they counsel students to consider specialties such as business or science coverage? Do they feel that they have the resources to do so? These are just some of the areas that could be explored.

Notes

1. Carl Sessions Stepp, "The State of the American Newspaper: Then and Now," American Journalism Review 21 (September 1999): 60-73.

2. Ibid,

3. Lewis M. Simons, "Follow the Money," American Journalism Review 21 (November 1999): 55. 4. Jane Bryant Quinn, "When Business Reporting Becomes Soft Porn," Columbia Journalism Review 36 (March-April 1998).

5. Joseph T. Hamilton and Joseph P. Kalt, Study of Economic and Business Journalism for the Ford Foundation by the Foundation for American Communications (Los Angeles: Foundation for American Communications, 1987).

6. Joseph L. Bower, "Can Big Stories Be Told? Yes, But It Will Take Better Education of Economic Reporters and a Reorganization of the News Business," Nieman Reports 45 (fall 1991): 68.

7. Hamilton and Kalt, Economic and Business Journalism.

8. Ernest C. Hynds, "Business Coverage Is Getting Better," Journalism Quarterly 57 (summer 1980): 297-304, 368; T.W. Hubbard, "The Explosive Demand for Business News," Journalism Quarterly 43 (winter 1966): 703-708.

9. John N. Rippey, "Business and Economic News in Pennsylvania Daily Newspapers," Journalism Quarterly 55 (spring 1978): 130-134.

10. RobertO. Blanchard and William G. Christ, "Beyond the Generic Curriculum: The enriched Major for Journalism and Mass Communication" (paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in journalism, Portland, Ore., 1988).

11. Gerald E. Auten, "Missouri Economics Course Is Specifically for J-Majors," Journalism Educator 32 (October 1977): 12-16, 80.

12. David H. Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit, The American Journalist in the 1990s: U.S. News People at the End of an Era (Mahway, N.J.: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1996).

13. Hamilton and Kalt, Economic and Business Journalism.

14. Brian J. Buchanan, ed., No Train, No Gain: Continuing Training for Newspaper Journalists in the 1990s (Arlington, Va.: Freedom Forum, 1993).

15. Weaver and Wilhoit, American Journalist in the 1990s.

16. Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, Handbook of Qualitative Research (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1994): 2.

17.John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1998).

18. Melvin L. DeFleur and Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Theories of Mass Communication, 5th ed. (New York: Longman, 1989).

Ludwig is a master's student in the Department of Communication at California State University, Fullerton.