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Is business journalism a good career choice?
April 26, 2021
Business journalism is not just writing about men in suits, reporting from boardrooms, and dealing with complex numbers, says Alexis Akwagyiram, Nigeria bureau chief for Reuters. Rather, it’s about people.
“Often the misconception is that it’s just a very, very narrow gaze,” Akwagyiram says. And yet, from his base in Lagos, he’s written on topics as wide-ranging as oil and how Africa’s richest man built his empire, to the growth of Nollywood, Afrobeats, and fintech. Business journalism is “about people fundamentally: why people want a service, and how business can be a force for good, or not.”