JOUR 372 - Reporting on the Economy

Credits: 3

Required for the business journalism sequence and appropriate as an elective for journalism, strategic communication, and business administration majors. Prerequisite: at least junior class standing. Reporting and writing techniques used by journalists who cover global economics. Students learn basics of the reporting and analysis of Federal Reserve reports, economic indicators, and data via the Bloomberg terminal and other resources. Writing emphasizes storytelling about people behind the numbers of the wealth and wage gaps, consumer trends, and worker issues in the global supply chain.