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    PROXY GUIDE
    Of all the documents that companies produce, proxy statements are among the most useful for reporters. Use this guide to improve your coverage.

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  • Wedding season small-business profiles and other angles
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    Wedding season small-business profiles and other angles

    Beats, Featured, Melissa Preddy, Personal finance, Retail | Lifestyle, Small | Private | Non-profit, Story ideas

    Wedding season is arriving in many locales. It’s a nice opportunity to get some picturesque small business profiles, personal finance and hospitality stories onto the business pages.  And with weddings being among the biggest-ticket items most families spend on, you might find among nuptial trends some interesting economic indicators and other cues to your region’s [...]

  • Skilled temporary foreign workers and the impact on U.S. jobs
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    Skilled temporary foreign workers and the impact on U.S. jobs

    Best Practices, Featured, Manufacturing | Large companies, Rosland Gammon, Technology

    The Seattle Times does a comprehensive job of exploring how foreign worker visas affect American workers in the technology field. Reporters Kyung Song and Janet Tu start the story with a recent computer science graduate who struggled to find a job. They write thousands of programmers and engineers have faced the same challenge “despite reports [...]

  • Post Bangladesh: Retailers, consumers and sourcing of apparel and textiles
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    Post Bangladesh: Retailers, consumers and sourcing of apparel and textiles

    Agriculture, Beats, Featured, Manufacturing | Large companies, Melissa Preddy, Retail | Lifestyle, Story ideas

    I’ve been feeling remiss in not writing about the business implications of that the tragic and deadly fire that took place April 24 in a Bangladesh garment factory, and now unfortunately there are reports of another fatal fire at a sweater-making facility there as well. These workplace disasters have prompted a fair amount of discussion in the United [...]

  • IRE hosts Google Hangout on ICIJ ‘Secrecy for Sale’ investigation
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    IRE hosts Google Hangout on ICIJ ‘Secrecy for Sale’ investigation

    Featured, Investigation, Networking

    Dozens of journalists teamed up to dig deep on 2.5 million files attached to more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts. The result: a groundbreaking investigation on offshore secrecy – “Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze” – from The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The series has already gained international attention, [...]

  • Develop personal finance features from stock market headlines
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    Develop personal finance features from stock market headlines

    Beats, Economy, Featured, Investing | Banking, Manufacturing | Large companies, Melissa Preddy, Personal finance, Story ideas

    With stock market indices topping records and hitting psychological milestones like “Dow 15,000,” your audiences probably are wondering if it’s finally safe to peek at their 401(k) statements, and what else this bull run means for them.  And more to the point, “Can it last?” As CNBC reports, major indices are up by double-digits so far [...]

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