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The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is now on Facebook!
To celebrate, we’re holding a competition. The Reynolds Center is always looking for new ways to help journalists, so starting Aug. 17, the first 100 people to do the following will be eligible for a prize:

1. Become a fan of the Reynolds Center page on Facebook AND then

2. On our wall:

- Post a suggestion for a tool or resource that would help you cover business
OR
- Link to a tool or resource that you’ve found helpful in reporting on business

The first 100 new fans to post to the Reynolds Center wall will be entered into a drawing for a satchel filled with books that no business journalist’s library should be without. We’ll contact the winner through Facebook for his/her mailing information and announce the lucky winner on Facebook and Twitter.
So check out our page here, become a fan and start gaining the resources to become a better business journalist.

Riding the wave

This week Google announced its new communication tool, Wave.

Due out sometime this year, the application imcorporates the elements of conversation and an electronic documents.

With Wave, people can communicate and collaborate with text, photos, videos, and maps in real-time.
Participants can also reply anywhere in a message feed, edit content and add participants to the process. 

The product idea, which originated from the success of email and instant messaging, has been in the works for more than two years.

From the post:

"It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave and see how it evolved," said Lars Rasmussen, Google's software engineering manager.

CNBC's Becky Quick on co-anchoring a live morning program

(201).net, a local Web site that caters to Bergen County, NJ, has an article about CNBC anchor Becky Quick. Quick co-anchors "Squawk Box" from 6 to 9 a.m. ET. This means she is at work around 4 a.m., catching up on all of the overnight news developments and, of course, filling up on caffeine. But Quick doesn't seem to mind the lifestyle:

The great thing about being on so early is that you get all the news as it hits the wires. My co-anchors, Joe Kernen and Carl Quintanilla, and I love that more than anything because we love getting the news live, while we're on the air, and trying to interpret exactly what it means, how to ask the best questions, so we can set the business agenda for the day. We need to tell people what they should be thinking about before the market even opens.

Quick said she has watched her 401(k) plummet in the last year and admitted that she did not even open her last statement. But Quick said it's still important to know what is happening with the markets and the economy. "Business news is more vital than ever," she said.

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