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		<title>Dallas paper hires consumer watchdog columnist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Lieber, the consumer watchdog columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram who was laid off after 20 years at the paper in January, has been hired by the Dallas Morning News. Lieber’s inaugural column with the Morning News will be published on Friday, May 31. His column will run every Friday and Sunday. “Dave has one]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ names Nixon its chief Euro commentator</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thorold Barker, the Wall Street Journal editor who oversees coverage of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, sent out the following staff promotion on Monday: &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; I am delighted to announce that Simon Nixon is appointed Chief European Commentator of the Wall Street Journal. High quality commentary and analysis is an increasingly]]></description>
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		<title>Access is one of the biz media&#8217;s problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brett Arends of Marketwatch.com writes about the problems in the media, and includes one that is particularly an issue in financial journalism. Arends writes, &#8220;In early 2007, when the subprime crisis first blew up, some executives at big mortgage lending companies were going around telling everyone that their companies were okay. But I reported at]]></description>
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		<title>Getting lit up: How PR people become the story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 16:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frankie Flack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then my email will suddenly become inundated with emails from friends and colleagues in the PR industry all emailing me one story.  Before evening opening any one of these notes I know exactly what the content of the story will be &#8212; a story featuring some PR person doing something stupid. Sometimes]]></description>
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		<title>A mastery of complicated topics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gilbert Bailon of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes Sunday about the paper&#8217;s business columnist, David Nicklaus. Bailon writes, &#8220;A native of small-town Iowa, Nicklaus has worked for the Post-Dispatch Business staff for 31 years as a reporter, editor and columnist. As a columnist, Nicklaus specializes in bringing down-to-earth analysis of broad themes such as budget]]></description>
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		<title>No golden age of business journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columbia University&#8217;s Todd Gitlin writes about the lack of a Golden Age in journalism for Salon magazine, and uses financial journalism as an example. Gitlin writes, &#8220;Start to finish, financial journalism was breathless about the market thrills that led to the 2007-2008 crash: the financialization of the global economy, the metastasis of derivatives, and especially]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego paper names new biz columnist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan McSwain is the new business columnist at the Union-Tribune in San Diego. McSwain writes, &#8220;In college I pursued a writing career, eventually becoming the editor-in-chief of the college newspaper. I left college, along with a good job as a business reporter at a daily newspaper, to go back to work for my father. &#8220;My]]></description>
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		<title>Frankie Flack: In a crisis, focus on those affected, not the biz media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frankie Flack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the events of last week, it seems appropriate to spend some time discussing communications principles in the time of a crisis for a business. There are a number of ways to define a crisis, and in fact, there are many divergent views on how best to handle a corporate crisis from a PR perspective.]]></description>
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		<title>Houston biz columnist says goodbye</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loren Steffy, the business columnist at the Houston Chronicle, says goodbye to his readers after nine years writing the column. Steffy is joining a strategic communications firm with some of his former Bloomberg News colleagues. Steffy writes, &#8220;More than nine years ago, when former Chronicle editor Jeff Cohen first discussed a column, he asked me]]></description>
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		<title>I cover hedge funds, not skin cream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill C. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For public relations professionals, building strong relationships with reporters is the best way to collaborate on story ideas. However, PR pros are occasionally tasked with getting exposure in a completely new area, one in which they cannot rely on their current contact list. In these situations, it is best to do a thorough background check]]></description>
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