The Financial Writer's Stylebook: 1,100 Business Terms Defined and Rated - Softcover

Roush, Chris; Cloud, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933338814 ISBN 13: 9781933338811

Publisher: Marion Street Press, LLC, 2010

Synopsis

Simplifying the terms and phrases that make business reporting difficult, this handbook is an essential tool for all business journalists. Including a rating system for various terminology and suggestions on word usage for difficult stories, this comprehensive stylebook offers guidance on business journalism-related legal and ethical issues on insider trading, disclosure of market-sensitive information, and whether or not a business reporter can own stock. This thorough guide is an excellent, unique resource for journalism school students, business communications students, and active reporters alike.

About this title

About the Author

Chris Roush is a professor at the University of North Carolina, the director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, and a senior presenter for the Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. The Scripps Howard Foundation named him Journalism Teacher of the Year in their 2009 National Journalism Awards. He is the author of Inside Home Depot and Show Me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Bill Cloud is a professor of copyediting at the University of North Carolina, the director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Center for Editing Excellence, and a member of the board of directors for the Educational Fund of the American Copy Editors Society. He ran the copy desk at Newsday Part II and is a former reporter and copyeditor for the Miami Herald. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Review

"The book is an invaluable guide to helping you get business right, understand it, and explain it. Which is, of course, what we all should be trying to do."  —Allan Sloan, senior editor at large, Fortune magazine

"An essential interpretive guide for business journalists striving to make the arcane clear to readers. Very practical references for today's changing business climate."  —Patrick Scott, business editor, Charlotte Observer

"A comprehensive reference tool for virtually every phrase a business or economics reporter or editor needs to know. An indispensable guide both for specialists and especially for those who get thrust into covering business or economic stories."  —Greg David, editorial director, Crain's New York Business

"No newsroom should be without a copy of this thorough and handy reference."  —Pamela Luecke, Reynolds professor of business journalism, Washington & Lee University

Edition details

• Publisher: Marion Street Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1933338814
• ISBN 13: 9781933338811
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192