Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-191) and index.

1. Introduction ' Background and Rational of the Political Economy of Business Journalism 1.1 Why study the political economy of business journalism? 1.2 What makes this book different from others specialising in business journalism? 1.3 The Triple Political Economic Crisis of Business Journalism Part 1: The crisis in the political economy of global capitalism 2. The Political economy of business and journalism: From paradox to crisis of capitalism 2.1 Political Economy of journalism and Public Business Journalism 2. 2 Capitalism, anti-capitalism and the Business model of journalism 3. Crisis in the political economy of journalism and global capitalism 3.1 Corporate Journalism and Public Business Journalism 3.2 A social problem of political economic communication as corporate journalism 4. From Muckraking to Investigative Journalism: The Standard Oil Company and Enron Scandals 4.1 History of watchdog journalism, corporate scandals, and global capitalism 4.2 The Muckraking Movement

Business Journalism: A Critical Political Economy Approach critically explores the failures of business journalists in striking the balance between the bottom line business model and their role in defending the public interest. Drawing on historical and political economic perspectives and analysing these in relation to critical political economic theory, the book explores failures of business journalism through the dwindling of social responsibility in the business journalist' s role in holding political and corporate power to account.