Alison Lake spent three years on The Washington Post foreign desk and has been managing editor of a think tank, director of an online news
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Hype is a constant issue in business. Companies indulge in it. PR reps dole it out by the ladle. Markets revel in it. But hype
Matt Lait is the city editor at the Los Angles Times and an adjunct instructor at the University of Southern California. Lait helped receive the 2016
Harriet Ryan is a Bronze Award Winner of the Barlett & Steele Award for Investigative Journalism. Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles
Your 500-word assignment has ballooned to 750 words, and there’s no way to shorten it without destroying your carefully crafted prose. If that sounds familiar, you’re not
Today’s business reporters must be excellent writers, thorough reporters and savvy promoters. Many of us are responsible for pushing our work through social media channels to increase
If you report on business, you already know that the media industry has changed dramatically and continues to evolve. To stay afloat, you must write
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