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JOUR 602

Business Journalism

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
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Overview

Description

Learn to report incisively on businesses and industries by conducting extensive reporting, analyzing quantitative data and major sources of business news.

Units

Lecture3

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Offering

Offered: Every Spring

Terms

spring

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Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • create incisive articles about companies and industries by analyzing stock-market data, financial statements, Securities and Exchange Commission filings, and other sources of information.
  • create a work of in-depth investigative journalism about a business topic.
  • assess the quality of business news from different sources of media including the Web, newspapers, magazines, radio/podcasts, TV, books, and documentary film.
  • analyze current trends in media innovation in business journalism and assess the impact of those trends on media ethics and quality.