INTRODUCTION - THE CONSTRUCTION OF ECONOMIC NEWS: Critical Research into Economic, Business and Financial News

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Abstract

Since the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008 and continuing throughout the turbulent political and economic years that followed, the question of how economic issues are understood by the broader public has become a growing concern. After the GFC, dominant orthodox economic theories, based around the ideology of the self-regulating market and the rational actor, came under limited (if short-lived) scrutiny, while economic and business journalism was critiqued as the “dog that didn’t bark” (Starkman 2014). However, despite an increased recognition that the way economic issues are framed in the news media has massive political and economic repercussions, there is little evidence of lasting change in how they are mediated. Therefore, it is essential that the academy continues to take seriously how economic and financial journalism reports economic news and the structures and practices that underly this content. This chapter discusses the key themes of research into economic journalism before outlining the aims, rationale and structure of the book.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHow to Read Economic News
Subtitle of host publicationA Critical Approach to Economic Journalism
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages1-23
Number of pages23
ISBN (Electronic)9781000881004
ISBN (Print)9780367724269
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2023

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