A Practitioners' Handbook for the AI-Powered Financial Journalist

This book treats AI and OSINT as everyday tools—useful, bounded, and always subject to transparent, human editorial judgment. A Practitioners' Handbook for the AI-Powered Financial Journalist is a do-first textbook that fuses writing craft with OSINT and AI-assisted workflows—so students and early-career reporters can produce accurate, human-centered journalism at speed. Built from classroom seminars and newsroom practice, it pairs clear explanations with assignments, checklists, and case studies to build durable skills. Readers learn where these tools help, where they fail, and how to verify, disclose, and maintain evidentiary standards. It also foregrounds a global, beyond-Western perspective, challenging dominant narratives and training readers to write for international audiences. Scope: Part I covers the essentials—leads and structure, interviewing, sourcing, fact-checking, headline craft, features, investigative basics, expert use, and bias awareness. Part II develops business journalism capability—macroeconomy and indicators, markets, trade, company news, private equity/VC/hedge funds, science/tech as business beats, business investigations with OSINT, AI tools in the newsroom, and crypto coverage. Each chapter ends with readings and practical assignments. Who is it for? Undergraduate and graduate students, early-career reporters, and instructors seeking ready-to-teach modules. Key benefits: (1) Do-first pedagogy—exercises that build muscle memory for interviewing, verification, data use, and story structure; (2) AI & OSINT, explained and bounded—practical frameworks and guardrails; (3) Business journalism, demystified—turn numbers into narratives audiences actually understand.