Financial reporting veteran: here to help build confidence
In Suva from left IMF Senior Communications Officer, Dezhi Ma, Thomson Reuters Foundation trainers, Mathieu Robbins and Lincoln Feast. Photo: RACHNA LAL
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An international financial reporting expert has encouraged regional business journalists not to be scared of, numbers and economics.
Mathieu Robbins, who has worked for two of the world’s top financial news services, Reuters and Bloomberg, stressed the importance of business journalists yesterday.
He said financial journalists should not be scared to address economic issues as their role is actually a crucial one to attract foreign investment.
“Both your country and investors in your countries will be counting on you to get it right,” Mr Robbins said.
Mr Robbins, together with his colleague Lincoln Feast, are currently in conducting an Economic Journalism training programme organised by the International Monetary Fund for Pacific Islands journalists.
Both trainers are from one of the world’s top financial journalism training organisations, the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Mr Robbins said one of their aim for this workshop was to allow financial journalists to exchange their experiences and learn from each other.
He hopes they can then better understand economic issues and also understand from a journalistic point of view how to cover them.
“One thing we would like to do is give people here confidence in their business reporting to take it forth and improve it,” he said.
“That is not to say it is bad but we have experience with the bigger markets in the world which are more advanced in their business reporting and it is a good opportunity to exchange tips here.”
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