The financial journalism that talks about short term movements in prices on markets that is.
On balance, it makes you wonder what the standards for financial journalism should be.
Financial journalism lost one of its leading lights Thursday when Alan Abelson died at the age of 87.
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After a short career in financial journalism, he founded the first Canadian institutional brokerage company, Loewen Ondaatje McCutcheon.
"Financial journalism lost one of its leading lights today with Alan Abelson's passing, " Ed Finn, Barron's editor and president, said in a statement.
Why do we consider the integrity of business and financial journalism to be even more important than for many forms of general-interest news?
And in 1998, to further financial journalism, she set up a foundation in her name whose editorial internships and student grants are much sought after.
Perhaps economics graduates, as rational decision-makers, are crowding into financial journalism, where they only have to leave the bar long enough to peck out 1, 000 words a week.
My previous article, The Seminary Bubble, certainly hit a nerve remarkably so, given that it appeared here at Forbes.com at the center of financial journalism and not one of the usual church discussion watering holes.
The resulting three part series The Giant Awakes won numerous awards and commendations including the Harold Wincott Award for financial journalism - which emphasises the ability to explain complex issues in a readily understandable manner.
Now a majority of the Bancroft family, which has controlled Dow Jones since financial-journalism pioneer Clarence Barron bought out Charles Dow, Edward Jones and the other founders in 1902, has decided to sell its shares to News Corp.
Our reporters and editors feel an especially strong obligation because the Journal, from the beginning, redefined financial and business journalism.
She studied business at Drexel University and worked in financial and entrepreneurial consulting before pursuing journalism at New York University.
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Aside from its columnists who are lively reads, particularly Martin Wolf, The Financial Times is a bare bones publication with meager investigative journalism and little color added on breaking stories.
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As the financial news juggernaut prepares to dive into the murky depths of opinion journalism, you might expect a concession that some things are simply subjective.
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Like all newspapers, the Washington Times has been buffeted by the financial downturn, declining advertising revenues and concerns about circulation and the future viability of journalism's traditional business model.
Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian - which exposed the phonehacking scandal in the face of furious and sustained denials from News International - says it's an "incredibly anxious time for journalism, with even the most powerful and professional newspapers clinging on to financial viability".
Even more striking, journalism schools, despite the industry's relatively low pay and its current financial woes, are also attracting students in numbers that the schools themselves cannot fathom.
One is ProPublica, which funds investigative journalism from an endowment given by Herbert and Marion Sandler, the founders of Golden West Financial, a big subprime lender (making it one of the few good things to come out of America's mortgage mess).
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