Fonseca, Journal of Communication

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The survival of the great financial journalism

Abstract

Traditionally, the economic international journalism has had in the Anglo-Saxon groups Dow Jones (USA) and Pearson (Great Britain), publishers of The Wall Street and Financial Times respectively, his big world models. Nevertheless, the new century has brought enormous convulsions to the sector, to the newspapaers of elite and big agencies specialized in economic information as Reuters, Thomson or Bloomberg. To the battle in Internet, there add the expansion of the informative economic power and the changes of mentality of the companies and of the audiences. All this has derived in a fierce war led by the big leaders who, with more than one century of tradition someones, have been object of sales or mergers, financial indispensable operations to be able to adapt to the new times. The aim of this article is to analyze the path of the great economic journalism, with special dedication to two fronts: one, to know how these neswspapers of elite are positioned in the network; other one, the dilemma between continuing being a journalism of quality, rigorous, cosmopolitan and expensive of supporting, or to change towards an ideological, gruesome journalism or amarillista that, since in other specialities, also has spread between the financial journalism
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The survival of the great financial journalism. (2011). Fonseca, Journal of Communication, 2(2), 55-70. https://revistas.usal.es/cuatro/index.php/2172-9077/article/view/11906

Author Biography

Elvira Calvo Gutiérrez

Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Universidad Complutense de Madrid.Facultad de Ciencias de la Información.Ciudad Universitaria, Av Complutense, s/n, 28040 Madrid, España.
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