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Ah, earnings season. CFOs reach for their lucky pen, belt, shoes or other good luck charm. Investor relations teams prepare to highlight the good and
Ah, earnings season. CFOs reach for their lucky pen, belt, shoes or other good luck charm. Investor relations teams prepare to highlight the good and
Looking for great websites for data-driven business stories? Jaimi Dowdell, training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), offered up a bounty of sites for
Reuters received the gold award and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the silver award in the fourth annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism,
How much do the Green Bay Packers and Lambeau Field impact the local economy? According to a story on PackersNews.com, a study released today states
Steve Berkowitz, Jodi Upton, Michael McCarthy and Jack Gillum of USA Today continue their look at college athletics with a story about how some schools
Ben Botkin of the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho, checked the dates on a local college’s bidding process and found some discrepancies. His story starts:
What do you do when you need to research a topic and you don’t have access to the proprietary LexisNexis news-articles database? That question came
As business journalists we report and write often about the larger economy and the fortunes of companies and industries. But nothing beats the human interest
Like people who can’t help asking for health advice from any doctor they meet, journalists who recognize me as the Regret the Error guy usually
The national holiday which celebrates the American worker is a natural news peg for business writers, especially with the ailing jobs market a top-of-mind topic
By Jodi Schneider In the fall of 2008, a credit squeeze that had been lingering for years ballooned into the biggest crisis that Wall Street
A new industry is benefiting from social media: debt collectors. According to Vanessa Romo’s segment for NPR’s All Things Considered, the practice is growing as
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