Bottom Line Writing: Reporting The Sense Of Dollars; Author: Fink, Conrad C.; Hardback; Book

Author: Fink, Conrad C.
Hardback; Book
232 pages
Published: June 2000
Iowa State University Press
ISBN: 0813822866
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Bottom Line Writing is designed to introduce students to the skills and dynamics of careers in business newswriting. It leads students through basic reporting techniques, with emphasis on how to handle the facts and figures of economics, business, and finance. It also demonstrates how to find financial information that readers want and need, how to use numbers, and how to understand andlocalize economic indicators.Fink uses a hands-on approach to de-mystify the art of translating business and economics for newspaper and magazine readers. His frequent use of examples from professional writers makes this a unique how-to book for students and professionals alike.A textbook that explains economic, financial, and business journalism. Rather than trying to educate the reader in the inner workings of economic methodologies, the aim of the text is to help the reader develop reporting skills needed to find people who are exports in those subjects and extract fro