Financial innovation in the Canadian Press: actors and reporting verbs

The newspapers are: The National Post , The Globe and Mail , The Toronto Star , The Gazette , La Presse , Le Devoir and Le Droit . The focus was on the sources whose speech was selected and reported by journalists in direct or indirect style when covering new subprime-driven financial derivative instruments, namely collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps (CDS).

With the use of the monolingual concordancer WordSmith 6.0, we looked at the following keywords: collateralized, backed, CDO, CDS and their French equivalents. The results were treated in 2 Excel files. In particular, we identified the different voices/actors who used the financial innovation terms.