This course will teach students to report and write business, financial and economic news stories. Students will learn the fundamentals of business journalism: writing on deadline, breaking news, interpreting earnings reports, securities filings and economic data, covering a beat, cutting through industry jargon, finding and developing sources, and crafting compelling enterprise stories. The class will also address ethics and legal issues in business journalism, and explore how to find stories in companies’ interactions with Wall Street, unions, employees, regulators, policymakers and law-enforcement agencies.
- Teacher: Justin Baer