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  • Regret the Error

    Craig Silverman

    Regret the (business) error
    NEW BLOGGER: Craig Silverman brings us his wit and wisdom starting Sept. 3. He'll appear every other week, focusing on common business journalism errors and tricks to avoid them.

    Check out his regular column: Regret the Error: Mistakes Happen
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    United-Continental merger
    MELISSA PREDDY: Back in April, Preddy wrote this great post full of sources after hearing reports of airline merger talks. That merger was approved Friday. It's expected to close Oct. 1. | Get ready to cover a United-Continental merger

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  • SABEW opens bidding for its online auction
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    SABEW opens bidding for its online auction

    Career tips, Community

    Bidding begins today for The Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ online auction.
    Items include a week at a lake cottage in Maine, an autographed football from Hall-of-Famer Troy Aikman, lunches with famed business journalists, tickets to a National Hockey League game in New York, and tickets to Major League baseball games in New York and [...]

  • $600,000 news anchor, $350,000 weathercaster not the norm for local broadcast journalists
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    $600,000 news anchor, $350,000 weathercaster not the norm for local broadcast journalists

    Basics, Career tips

    Somewhere out there in a local TV station, there’s a $600,000 news anchor and a $350,000 weathercaster, but that’s certainly not the norm in the recently released RTNDA/Hofstra University Annual Survey of local broadcast-news salaries.
    The median (half make more, half make less) for TV news anchors is $59,000 and for weathercasters is $50,000, and there [...]

  • D.C.-area newsletter seeks banking reporter
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    D.C.-area newsletter seeks banking reporter

    Basics, Investing | Banking, Job listings, Jobs

    Lisa Getter, co-publisher of Bank Safety & Soundness Advisor, is looking for a banking reporter who understands the following terms: CAMELS ratings, Call Reports and consent orders.
    The newsletter, based in Gaithersburg, Md.,  is directed at bank executives, she says, and its mission is “helping financial institutions thrive in the shifting regulatory environment,” according to its website. [...]

  • IRE offers database of SBA disaster loans
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    IRE offers database of SBA disaster loans

    Basics, IRE, Investigation, Latest, Real estate | Econ development, Small | Private | Non-profit, Story ideas

    Investigative Reporters and Editors is offering a database of disaster loans made by the Small Business Administration from fiscal 1980 to 2009. Journalists can use this database of 1,088,565 records to find where SBA disaster loans went in their market or determine who is not paying back SBA disaster loans, according to IRE Training Director [...]