One day whilst reading CNN’s business news I noticed a tab on the side saying “Business 360 Blog”. Opening the site, I noticed that Business 360 site is a gateway to many of CNN’s blogs about various different topics. There are a range of different blogs on the site such as Global Exchange which focuses on the effect of emerging economies on the global financial community. Another called Along the Silk Road looks at trade between he middle East and Asia focuses specifically on places such as Dubai, Hong Kong, Mumbai and Jakarta.
CNN’s Business 360 Blog’s allow users to comment and ask questions and links CNN news articles to the blog posts allowing readers to refer back to the original news articles. Some of the stories written in the blogs can be seen on programs on CNN’s new channel such as CNN’s Outlook Series which looks at particular countries in depth. For Example, their depth study on Singapore.The value of these blogs is that they are written by CNN’s international’s business anchors, corrospondents and reporters and include more of a personal insight into the news from their perspective. For example, Richard Quest’s Blog page on Business 360 he writes about ways in which we spend money all over the world. In his post titled Cashing in on Convenience? he discusses how banks charge us more on currency conversion when we use our debit/credit cards overseas. The post is useful in understanding why we should pay in local currency rather than our home currency.