Anya Schiffrin
Joseph Stiglitz
Aslam Abid
The first journalism textbook for reporters who cover finance and economics in developing and transitional countries, Covering Globalization is an essential guide to the pressing topics of our times.
Written by economists from the Asian Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund as well as journalists who have worked for Dow Jones, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Fortune, and Reuters—and with an introduction by Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz—this invaluable resource helps reporters write about subjects such as banking and banking crises, pension reform, privatization, trade agreements, central banks, the World Bank, sovereign debt restructuring, commodity markets, corporate governance, poverty-eradication programs, and the “resource curse.”
Each chapter explains the basic economic principles and current thinking on a given topic and provides:
- tips on what to look for when covering specific subjects;
- a way to structure business and economics stories;
- a way to use the Internet for reporting with links to more information online;
- extensive glossaries and much more.
“Covering Globalization” by Anya Schiffrin and Amer Bisat is certainly an extremely topical book. But it is also a very useful book. All important aspects of the globalisation discussion are thoroughly dealt with in a refreshingly understandable way. It is a goldmine of information both for students and not least for professional business and financial journalists. It is very solid and full of good practical tips. One can only wish the book many readers who will use the well presented information to help the debate become more objective and less ideologically biased.
– Peter Prüfert
Head, International Institute for Journalism; Germany
Globalization presents not only a host of economic and political challenges, but also immense challenges for the media. Schiffrin and Bisat have assembled an impressive, comprehensive guide to tackling some of the toughest stories of our era. This volume belongs on every business reporters’ and editors’ desks.
– Jim Ledbetter
Senior editor, TIME Europe
About the Editors
Anya Schiffrin
Co-Director, Media Program
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Anya Schiffrin teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She spent ten years working overseas as a journalist in Europe and Asia, writing for a number of different magazines and newspapers. She was bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi and wrote regularly for the Wall Street Journal. She was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1999-2000 and then a senior writer at the Industry Standard, covering banking and finance.
Amer Bisat
Portfolio Manager
Traxis Partners
Amer Bisat is a hedge fund manager focusing on emerging-markets bonds and was previously a portfolio manager at UBS and Morgan Stanley and chief emerging-markets economist at Salomon Brothers in Europe. He has also been a senior economist at the IMF, where he worked on the economics of Russia, Egypt, and Cameroon, and he has published widely on growth, the financial sector, and Middle East economics.
About the Authors
Sara Silver
Reporter
Financial Times
Anya Schiffrin
Co-Director, Media Program
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Anya Schiffrin teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She spent ten years working overseas as a journalist in Europe and Asia, writing for a number of different magazines and newspapers. She was bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi and wrote regularly for the Wall Street Journal. She was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1999-2000 and then a senior writer at the Industry Standard, covering banking and finance.
Petter Nore
Director of Energy Department
NORAD
Tyler Maroney
Writer
Marjorie Olster
Journalist
Reuters
Randall Dodd
Director
Financial Policy Forum
Joseph Stiglitz
President
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
Joseph E. Stiglitz is President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, and Chairman of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He is University Professor at Columbia, teaching in its Economics Department, its Business School, and its School of International and Public Affairs. He chaired the UN Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, created in the aftermath of the financial crisis by the President of the General Assembly. He is former Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank and Chairman of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2001.
Amer Bisat
Portfolio Manager
Traxis Partners
Amer Bisat is a hedge fund manager focusing on emerging-markets bonds and was previously a portfolio manager at UBS and Morgan Stanley and chief emerging-markets economist at Salomon Brothers in Europe. He has also been a senior economist at the IMF, where he worked on the economics of Russia, Egypt, and Cameroon, and he has published widely on growth, the financial sector, and Middle East economics.
Suzanne Miller
Gumisai Mutume
Journalist
Catherine Mckinley
Nick Rosen
Kristin Huckshorn
Reporter
Jane M. Folpe
Associate Director, Continuing Education
Graduate School of Journalism
Columbia University
Jane M. Folpe is associate director of Continuing Education at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an instructor in Computer-Assisted Financial Reporting at the Universitat de Barcelona/Columbia University Master in Journalism Program in Spain. She has lectured on this subject at workshops for journalists from developing countries at the Graduate School of Journalism and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue. Previously, Ms. Folpe was a reporter at Fortune and deputy editor of Fortune’s Spanish-language supplement, Fortune Americas. She began her career in journalism at the Washington bureau of the Spanish daily, El Pais, where she also served as an editor on the foreign desk in Madrid.
David Marchant
Author, Publisher
Offshore Alert
Howard I. Golden
Journalist
Esquire
Graham Watts
Consultant
New Paragraph Company Limited
Herbert K. Folpe
Adjunct Professor of Accounting
Yale University
Deidre Sheehan
Freelance Producer/Writer
Helen Campbell
Senior Policy Officer
Office of Women’s Policy
Dan Deluca
Vincent Nwanma
Journalist
Philip Longman
Senior Research Fellow
New America Foundation
Graciana del Castillo
Adjunct Professor
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Abid Aslam
Case Manager
Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Martin Guzman