UC Berkeley economics professor Bradford DeLong teams up with journalism professor Susan Rasky to offer ‘a quick guide for journalists who talk to economists and want to be in the information — rather than disinformation — business’; they also have a guide for ‘economists who talk to journalists and want to help, rather than hurt’.
1. Twelve things journalists need to remember to be good economic reporters:
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2. Twelve things economists need to remember to be helpful to journalistic sources* * http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=0094
3. How not to cover the economy, January 23, 2006 ‘A fed-up Berkeley economics professor joins up with the J-school to teach journalists and would-be journalists how to cover – and even more emphatically, how not to cover – economic news.’
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