Introduction
While many traditional roles in newsrooms are disappearing, financial journalism is growing. The Financial Journalism course is a unique programme that aims to train the participant to work as a financial journalist and will provide the participant with a firm grounding in corporate, financial and economic reporting, the ability to understand and manipulate financial data and to critically analyse announcements by companies and government departments. The participant will learn to discover the world of markets and companies, international trade and government policy, where there is always the next assignment to chase.
The current crisis in global banking, markets and economies has reminded us of the importance of financial journalism. It has also raised a set of profound questions as to the quality of that form of reporting. It does make us ask about the ability of journalism to report upon financial affairs in a way that lets the public know what is really going on. This program will help participants develop a range of professional journalism skills and knowledge needed to work in a fast-paced financial environment.
Why is this a competitive course ?
This course will provide the participants with an extensive training in the best professional practice of reporting financial news. The finance journalism course takes the principles of general news reporting covered in the reporting syllabus and applies them to the full range of finance reporting.
Participants will develop professional skills in:
- Interviewing financial experts|
- Researching financial data
- Writing financial news and features
- Gain understanding of how to obtain and use key economic and financial data, using state-of-the art bloomberg terminals.
- Finding stories and features and explain complex economic terms so readers can understand them
Course Eligibility
- Graduates with minimum 50% from any recognized University.
- Suitable for journalists who want to specialize in financial journalism, and for individuals with a background in the financial sector who want to work as journalists.
- Freshers can also apply.
Note - Registration is open. Course commencement is subjected to minimum class size of 20 students
- Introduction to business financial news
- Analysing profit and loss statements
- Analysing balance sheets cash flow statements
Covering company news
- Basics of macroeconomics (How economies work, and how governments (try to) manage them)
- Covering economic indicators (How economies are measured, and how to report on these economic indicators)
- Introduction to Business and Economic Journalism
- History of the Business Press. Main sources of global economic news.
- Building Your Knowledge Base and Sources
- Evaluating Data and Finding the Story in the Data
- Introduce Elements of A Good Economic News Story
- Using Elements of a Good Economic News Story, developing story ideas, identifying story formats, and localizing global headlines
- Introduction to Indian Stock markets
- The evolution of finance
- Financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities
- Interpret regulatory superstructure relating to various financial
instruments
- Understand how changing regulations have affected the performance of companies.
- Introduction to Indian banking structure
- Major banking Trends
- Overview of key aspects of banking including regulations and Basel framework
- Monitoring role of RBI- credit policies and its impact on economy
- Practical exposure-Reading Newsletters, daily newspapers
- Tracking major economic events (e.g. Credit policy of RBI, Interest rate scenarios)
- The historical evolution of trading patterns and international monetary regimes
- Commodity trade, price cycles and the oil shocks
- Change in international division of labour
- The current international architecture for trade and finance, including institutions like WTO, IMF, World Bank and regional blocs and arrangements
- The rise of finance and global neoliberalism
- Global financial markets, contagion and crises : Issues of policy concern for developing countries such as India
- Basic statistical techniques, Content analysis, survey, and experiment
- Effective data presentations: tables, graphs and other forms of visualisations
- How to propose your quantitative study
- Literature review development, Techniques to apply these methods for various research situations
- Principles of Constitution of India, Constitutional restrictions on Media
- The Press Registration of Books Act 1867
- Press Council
- Rights and Abilities of the Editor, Code of Ethics in Different media
- What is data journalism — and where does it come from?
- Finding stories in data - how do you do it?
- How do you find the data - sources, and techniques
- Cleaning data - how to make the data make sense
- Scraping data - using the web as a data source
- Visualising the data: what works and what doesn't
HOW TO PAY FEES
1. NEFT DETAILS:
Company Name : BSE Institute Limited,
Bank Name : HDFC Bank
Bank A/c No. : 1577 034 0008409,
IFSC Code : HDFC0000060
2. DD or Cheque in favour of - "BSE INSTITUTE LTD."
3. CREDIT CARD PAYMENT
FEES
The program fee for the EPFJ program is as follows:
- For Indian Participants: INR 35,500/- (incl. GST)
PAYMENT OPTIONS
- One time payment option: Rs. 35,500/- (incl. of taxes)
- Instalment Plan: A deferred payment facility exist with the following schedule.
Particulars |
Amount (incl. of Taxes) |
Payment Due Date |
Initial Payment |
INR 7,500/- (Incl. GST) |
At the time of Application |
First Installment |
INR 16,250/- (Incl.GST) |
Within 20 days from application date |
Second Installment |
INR 16,250/- (Incl.GST) |
2 months after course commencement |
Total |
INR 40,000/- (incl. GST) |
(Candidates need to submit the PDCs towards future instalments as per the due date at the time of admission confirmation)
- Instalment option for fees is not available for international participants.
- In case fees is not paid by the due date, a penalty of INR 2,000/- will be levied after 7 days grace period along with instalment amount.
Note: Registration is open. Course commencement is subjected to minimum class size of 20 students.
Refund Policy
- The User is expected to read the terms and conditions of the course and its benefits which are available online. BSE Institute Ltd. declare that any payment made, towards fee or any charges applicable to the said course/examination is non-refundable.
- Application fee, Test fees, Course fee, Program fee, etc., wherever applicable, once remitted shall not be refunded under any circumstances.
- BSE Institute shall not be responsible to refund any fee or amount. Company reserves the right to modify and amend refund policy at its sole discretion.
- All disputes regard to this policy shall be subject to the legal jurisdiction of Mumbai Courts only.
Important Note
- Only in the event of non-delivery of course to the student “subjected to minimum class size” by BSE Institute, as decided by BSE Institute at it's discretion, the course fee/program fee would be refunded to the payee, without any interest or compensation or damages or cost.
- Any such refund shall happen to the same account/credit card/ debit card, from which the amount was received.