Educational Web guide for new business journalists

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has created

an educational Web guide for journalists new to the business beat. Sunshine Inc.: The Basics of Covering Business Organizations offers a step-by-step introduction to some of the basics of business including:

• How companies are formed and the different structures businesses can take.
  
• How corporate structures work.
• How mergers, layoffs and bankruptcies work.
  
• The different types of company relationships and how they operate, including parent companies, holding companies and shell companies.
  
• The different state requirements for business licensing.
• The different types of business regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission and their different watchdog functions.

It also suggests some great online business resources including the Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval, Yahoo Finance, Hoovers.com and more.

You can read the full guide here.

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