How to Read Economic News: A Critical Approach to Economic Journalism

Identifies and explains the various methodological approaches to studying economic and financial journalism including political economy, ethnographic, content-based, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and audience perspectives. Showcases the wider ideological, structural and practical issues underlying economic reporting in order to provoke discussion and identify ways to improve journalistic practice. Provides students with a how-to guide for the primary approaches to analysis and production of economic news media, including end of chapter exercises and recommended further reading for individual study.