Business Journalism- India

COMMERCE, CAPITAL, EASTERN ECONOMIST, INDIAN FINANCE

Country’s economic progressFive Year Plans

News of economic development trickling in

Also PR for the Govt

Industrial production, public sector expansion

1954- Press CommissionGreat strides, increased importance in

general newspapers and emergence of specialised periodicals

Problem of understanding language and right interpretation

1961- ET, Shanthi Prasad Jain

1961- Financial Express- Ramnath Goenka

1973- Business Standard

1978- Business India

1981- Business World

Trend in newspapers- prominence to major industries like cotton, cement and stock exchange news

Business mags- the people behind the industries

Tatas, Birlas, Ambanis

1991- Liberalisation of the economy

Disinvestment FDI new sectors M &A

industrial sectors analysis of corporate results banking insurancefiscal and monetary policythe annual Budget mergers and acquisitions

management related issues such as business strategy

leadership corporate governance sunrise sectors

Investigative Journalism- Suchetha Dalal, TOI , 1992