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Salmon on the future of financial media

Felix Salmon of Fusion, formerly with Reuters and Conde Nast Portfolio, spoke with Benzinga about the future of financial journalism.

Brianna Valleskey writes, “First and foremost, Salmon thinks those forecasting the death of the terminal businesses are deluding themselves.

“‘Having wrote for Thomson Reuters, knowing a lot of people who wrote for Bloomberg — Those are really, really magnificent, very large, very well-resourced businesses,’ he said. ‘They’re not going anywhere.’

“What Salmon said he’s really looking forward to is the increasing amount of information coming directly from professionals, themselves, rather than the journalists.”

Read more here. The video is below.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.