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You know the drill. You receive a response to an outstanding query, or maybe it’s something tepid coming in over the transom. The email lauds

You know the drill. You receive a response to an outstanding query, or maybe it’s something tepid coming in over the transom. The email lauds

If you think you know how stocks are doing, better check again in five minutes. The year’s been unpredictable. One of the questions I have

There were a lot of bad things about Sumner Redstone and how he ran a business. He could be utterly ruthless. And yet, in the

Tired of hearing about “fake news” and “fake media?” Sorry to break it to you, but there’s a real problem and it could affect your

There’s a sucker born every minute. As a reporter, particularly a business journalist, you don’t want the next one to be you. There have been

I’ve come across some new (at least to me) tools that are great for reporters doing data work as part of their business journalism. Here

You don’t sustain a career in journalist without constantly learning. Even if you’re a business journalist who’s worked an industry beat for years, or decades,

Early in June 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the jobs numbers for May. The media rejoiced as though it were a brisk

The stock market is up! Oh, sorry, down! Ah, wait, up after all! Trying to follow and explain what stocks are doing can be a

Who confuses the coronavirus family and Corona beer? Earlier this year, it would seem like many people, if you believed a poll that had come

There is no good journalism without information. But there are very different types: poor, decent, good, great, and too good. Most of these gradations sound

It’s been, what, five months since the early news of Covid-19 spreading? Numbers are at the heart of explaining it all, whether enumerating people infected,
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