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How should the BBC present economic data?
26th December 2015
A very interesting post from Professor Simon Wren-Lewis of Oxford University discussing aspects of how data such as real growth per capita, government debt levels and employment rates could be covered more intelligently by economics and financial journalists at the BBC. For example the need to express debt levels as a share of national output or as a percentage of income rather than the "media friendly" but faintly pointless debt clocks that often appear on screens! Click here to read the article
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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