Economic Life: global capital, financial journalism, and independent media

This article examines financial journalism in Morocco during the 1990s, focusing on the tenure of French press magnate Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber at La Vie économique (LVE) and the entrance of global capital into Morocco’s media market. At LVE Servan-Schreiber assembled a group of young reporters, columnists and analysts who came to journalism through finance and financial journalism at a time when Morocco was in the throes of economic liberalization. This moment proved formative for a new generation of media ownership and demonstrates a shift in media-state relations toward an ambivalent authoritarianism, defined by a new openness to complementary interests of media and the state. Bringing together political economy and textual analysis based on archival research, this article argues that financial journalism set the stage for a commercialization of independent media in Morocco that is characterized by recognition of media’s role as both a facilitator for global capital and a powerful player in the realm of geopolitics. Additionally, on the domestic front, the economic press paves the way for the reentry of politics into public discourse and a liberal approach that attempts to work within the constraints of capital while not eschewing critique.

Peculiarities of using exclamatory constructions in headlines of French economic articles

The following article is dedicated to certain grammar, lexical and stylistic particularities in headlines of French economic articles with exclamatory constructions. Authenticity of received results is ensured by the analysis of important corpus of factual material, headlines of French economic press articles of the last three years, chosen by continuous sampling method. Headlines of articles with exclamatory constructions clearly demonstrate a full variety of means to draw reader’s attention to the problems described in the text of the article. The authors specify strong interdependence of extralinguistic reality and lexico-grammatical means in headlines. The research shows that French economic press headlines with exclamatory meaning are the most frequent nominative constructions, but verbal elements are also present. The analysis helps to find out some regularities in the choice of verbal tenses and modalities, syntax construction in headlines of articles. The article highlights the most important lexical, grammar and orthographical expressive means used by authors in headlines of articles. The research results can be used in teaching of French press language and in special courses at the bachelor and master levels. It can be quite interesting to study grammar, lexical and stylistic means in exclamatory headlines of economic articles in contrastive-comparative aspect, based on the press of different countries.

Economic Press Coverage in the UAE. Study of Content Analysis of Daily Economic Supplement Al-Etihad Newspaper 2018

The study covered economic news coverage in its different forms (news, reports, press interviews, articles, etc.) of the economic supplement of the UAE daily newspaper Al Etihad by studying a random sample of the daily economic supplement in November 2018. The study focused on several types of the journalistic forms published by the mentioned annex, and the extent of economic and development coverage of this supplement to other forms such as the publication of studies or economic analysis or the use of the investigative press with all its outputs to serve this coverage to satisfy the growing needs of readers interested in economic issues that are of interest to large numbers of readers nowadays. The study also examined the economic news forms on which the editorial policy focuses on the appendix, as well as the different sources from which the issuers of the appendix draw this information and organize these sources according to certain criteria such as relevance, credibility, inclusiveness and others. This is to know the percentage of ready-made news (negative) and news produced by the newspaper staff (positive) and news from public institutions that the newspaper works to support and reformulate it (positive / negative). The researcher relied on the methodology of the media survey and the content analysis tool for seven economic supplements for the newspaper mentioned (days 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 26/11/2018). The study included three axes, one devoted to the theoretical framework and the second to the methodological framework. The third axis was devoted to the analytical study.

The specifics of Hu Shuli’s work in the conditions of the new stage of reforms and opening up

Today, the People’s Republic of China, formed on October 1, 1949, being at the starting point in a new historical era, continues to successfully pursue a policy of reforms and opening up, initiated by the great statesman of China, Deng Xiaoping (小平 (1904-1997)). The article presents an analysis of the main trends in the functioning of the financial and economic press of China on the example of the work of one of the brightest leading media representatives of the PRC, Hu Shuli. For almost 20 years, she is considered to be the benchmark for quality analytical journalism, on which the new generation of journalists look up to.

The role of city rankings in local public policy design: Urban competitiveness and economic press

The objective of this research is to identify the factors that determine the capacity of city rankings published in the economic press—particularly The Economist Intelligence Unit and AméricaEconomía—to not only trigger social dialogue about the ratings different territories attain but also to enrich the public debate on the “competitive city model” and influence the design and implementation of local public policies on the matter. The research method involved interviews with public officials responsible for the design and implementation of urban competitiveness policies in the following Mexican cities: Mexico City, Monterrey, Puebla, and Queretaro, all of which are listed in the rankings of the journals The Economist Intelligence Unit and AméricaEconomía. The field research included an interview with the editor responsible for conceptualizing, preparing, and publishing the first version of “The Best Cities to Do Business in Latin America” ranking of the journal AméricaEconomía. It also included a comparative analysis of city indexes from the theoretic and conceptual perspective of space of flows. The investigation was conducted between March and August 2017.

Workplace Innovations as Reflected in the Romanian Economic Press

<p>Workplace innovations are designed to optimize production processes in firms and improve employees’ working conditions; few researches on this topic have shown that workplace innovations increased employees’ job satisfaction, as well as a sense of responsibility and autonomy, but also employees’ overall well-being, especially regarding to work–life balance and health. Workplace innovation includes aspects regarding work organization (job autonomy, self-managed teams, flexible working etc.), organizational structure and systems (devolution of decision-making to employees, fairness and equality, supporting employee initiative etc.), learning and development (high involvement innovation, staff learning and development, shared knowledge and experience etc.), workplace partnership (social dialogue, representative participation, involvement in change, openness and communication, integrating tacit and strategic knowledge etc.). This paper aims to highlight the main characteristics of workplace innovations in Romanian firms, as they are presented in some economical, business and academic, journals in our country. The research methodology consisted of a content analysis performed on four Romanian economic journals two from academic area (Management and Marketing and Management Dynamics in Knowledge Economy) and two from business area (Cariere and Biz). The dimensions of content analysis included the different types of workplace innovations and their effects on organizational performance as well as on employees’ quality of life at the workplace, the size and the source of capital and economic sector of firms that innovate in human resource management, barriers and drivers to the implementation of workplace innovations etc. The period for journals content analysis was 1 year, between January 1 and December 31, 2013. The paper contains a case study for each journal, including abstracts of the most relevant articles on the workplace innovations and related topics.</p>

Economy is an organism – a comparative study of metaphor in English and Russian economic discourse

In the present study a corpus-based approach is employed to compare the use of metaphor describing the global economic crisis of 2008 in the mainstream economic press in Britain and in Russia. The analysis is carried out within the framework of cognitive metaphor theory, involving a comparative study of conceptual metaphors and frequency analysis. The results indicate that a considerable similarity exists in terms of high-level conceptual metaphors, but find subtle differences in terms of frequency and linguistic expression. We particularly focus on