Step Two – Using Good Article Sources

IB Economics.

Your article sources must be news media sources, containing the latest news about an economics issue. Remember: you cannot use the same source for more than one commentary. Each source should be different for each commentary.

I tell my students to use these sources, amongst others:-

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/   
https://edition.cnn.com/business  
https://www.bbc.com/news/business  
http://www.independent.co.uk   
http://www.guardian.co.uk  
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html  
https://www.reuters.com/  
   

Notice something. The Economist magazine and the Financial Times are not on the above list. It is not recommended that you choose articles from these publications because they already analyse and evaluate the economic situation that they are talking about within the article itself. You are expected to do this within your commentary.

Also be warned. Some of the above news sources allow you to view an article once, but the next time you log in you are asked to subscribe to the publication, and you cannot see the article again. If you see a good article, therefore, copy and paste it into another document straight away!