2007: a turning point for international financial journalism

Abstract

The 21st century has brought big convulsions to the economic international journalism focused in The United States. The battle in the network, the expansion of the informative economic power and the change of mentality of managerial groups, and of the own audience, has derived in a war that lead the big leaders who, with more than hundred years of tradition some ones, have been an object of sales or mergers to adapt to the new times. Particularly, this year 2007 has supposed a point of important inflexion in the measure that has been the scene of three facts of special relevancy in the financial and journalistic world: on the one hand, the merger of both leading agencies of the economic world information, Reuters and Thompson; for other one, The Wall Street Journal's sale, the jewel of the financial American journalism that, after one century in hands of the group Dow Jones, has been bought by Ruphert Murdoch. The magnate of the press, in addition, has started a new financial television, the Fox Business, to face the all-powerful CNBC. Undoubtedly, they traverse new airs for the financial international journalism.