Henry Silke is a lecturer in Journalism at the University of Limerick. His research interests include ideology and how it manifests in the media. He has previously published work looking at the role of journalism in economic and political crises.

Fergal Quinn is a lecturer in Journalism at the University of Limerick. He worked for over a decade as a print and multimedia journalist. His research interests include the representation of minorities and societal inequality in journalism output, and journalism training, particularly in developing-world and post-conflict environments.

Maria Rieder is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick. Her research is concerned with the critical role of language in situations of economic and social inequality. She has been involved in research on media and social protest, issues of immigration and asylum, critical intercultural communication and minority languages and economics. Her published work focuses on social and economic inequality, human rights and minority communities.

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List of Contributors

Chapter 1: Introduction - How to Read Economic News

Henry Silke

Fergal Quinn

Maria Rieder

Part I: Connecting economic theory, ideology and journalism

Chapter 2: Economic Imaginaries, Economics Theories And The Role Of Economic Journalism

Hendrik Theine

Chapter 3: What can journalism learn from Heterodox Economics

Andrea Grisold

Chapter 4: Ideology, Economics and Journalism

Henry Silke

Chapter 5: Journalism Studies and Crises: Economic, Environmental and Political - Towards a political Economic Approach.

Paschal Preston

Part II: Methodological approaches for evaluation of economy-related media output

Chapter 6: Using Content Analysis to study Economic Journalism

Fergal Quinn

Muireann Prendergast

Chapter 7: Analysing Economic News Sources: Who gets to speak?

Henry Silke

Chapter 8: Corpus Linguistics and Economic Media research

Brian Clancy

Elaine Vaughan

Chapter 9: Breaking Down the Discourse, Exposing Power in Economic Journalism - Critical Discourse Analysis

Maria Rieder

Hendrik Theine

Chapter 10: Deconstructing Economic Discourses on Broadcast News

Ciara Graham

Brendan O'Rourke

Chapter 11: Deconstructing Discourse: Applying Interview Research in the Economic Newsroom

Sophie Knowles

Nadine Strauß

Chapter 12: Researching Audiences: Understanding how economic news is received

Mike Berry

Part III: News production: Best practices for investigating economic and business stories

Chapter 13: Making sense of economic data

Donal Palcic

Darragh Flannery

Chapter 14: Economic news approaches

Audrey Galvin

Brian Hurley

Chapter 15: Where theory meets practice - tips for BETTER economic journalism

Fergal Quinn

Maria Rieder

Henry Silke

Index