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Remote no more

Last week Amazon joined the list of corporations closing the chapter on remote work with an announcement that most workers would be required to be

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From humble beginnings: eReaders and eBooks

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) recently announced the 22 books they shortlisted for their annual Best in Business Book Awards. Additionally,

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Political advertising: New angles to explore

Even in 2023, the media was reporting that political ad spending for the 2024 elections was expected to shatter records. AdImpact estimates the 2023-2024 election

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Employee turnover

This summer, Gallup Research published survey results with the headline “42% of employee turnover is preventable but often ignored,” noting that “employee turnover risk is

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Business news story structure

The inverted pyramid might be the classic model for structuring a news story, but it doesn’t work very well for business and financial news –

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Tricky punctuation

Here is a refresher on exclamation points, question marks, and semi-colons. Exclamation points Most style guidelines within the news industry recommend avoiding the exclamation point

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Pay transparency and the gender pay gap

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), pay transparency legislation can help address the gender pay gap and reduce broader gender inequalities in the labor

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Do Olympic dreams pay?

We are in the final week of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and business stories are plentiful. From the historical cost of the Games for

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The history of digital banking

Digital banking is now part of our everyday lives, but it took the industry decades to get to the point that it is today. This

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Banking deserts

A banking desert is defined as “an area without traditional financial institutions and services,” meaning there is no physical bank branch within a specified radius

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AI: A teacher’s sidekick… or substitute?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making headlines every day for one thing or another, and business journalists shouldn’t be afraid to seek out AI stories even

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Marketing can make or break a business

Don Vultaggio, the brand chairman and founder of AriZona Beverages – the maker of the popular 99-cent iced tea – recently made headlines for his

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