Tutorial: Covering financial markets

By Reynolds Staff on Nov 19, 2009 in Basics, Beats, Financial/economy, Tools, Tutorials

This tutorial from Chris Roush is a crash course in financial markets. Roush, the director of the Carolina Business News Initiative and an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will teach you:

How to cover stocks and what to look for as news.
The importance of bond coverage to business coverage.
Why commodities and futures coverage is increasing.

Follow along for more on covering financial markets:

Covering Financial Markets

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The Reynolds Center, created through generous grants from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation of Las Vegas and operated by ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is dedicated to improving the quality of business and economics coverage through training programs for business reporters and editors.