Economic information acts as a product. The public, legal entities and individuals are its main consumer. In this study, the authors consider the concept of economic media text and the role of language techniques used by journalists to explain economic information and fulfill all the demand of the audience. In this work, the authors study the use of quotation writing as one of the types of intertext in the Russian economic media text. The quotation writing is considered as a mechanism for providing economic information for both the specialist in the field of economics and the average person. The study analyzes different types of quotation writing and their role in explaining economic information to the reader using economic media texts as an example. The methods and functions of the inclusion of precedent phenomena and their role in organizing the economic media, its influence on the adoption of economic decisions by the reader are considered.