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		<title>How a Yahoo tech journalist covered the Yahoo deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Gilbert, a tech reporter for Yahoo, writes about what it was like to cover the company&#8217;s announcement that it was rolling out an updated version of Flickr and its acquisition of Tumblr. Gilbert writes, &#8220;If you are looking for an even-handed, equanimous, journalistic-ten-commandments version of this story, then you are on the wrong website.]]></description>
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		<title>When a biz journalist&#8217;s phone records get seized</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the controversy of the U.S. attorney general seizing phone records of Associated Press reporters, Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times writes about when the phone records of a business journalist who wrote critically about a company were stolen. Morgenson writes, &#8220;The phone records theft took place in July of that year. The matter]]></description>
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		<title>Frankie Flack: The comedy of PR and media conversations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frankie Flack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the great comedy sketch “Who’s on First” two comedians, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, go back and forth in a wonderfully written piece where the two performers struggle to understand the names of the players on a St. Louis baseball team. Hearing the patient Costello inform a confused and irritated Costello the names of]]></description>
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		<title>Spending $1.1 billion to save Yahoo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Hester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Inc. is going to spend $1.1 billion in cash to purchase blogging site Tumblr, which has yet to make money. It’s a bold move, especially for the closely watched CEO Marissa Mayer. Here are a few of the details and rational for the deal from the Wall Street Journal story: Tumblr, founded in 2007,]]></description>
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		<title>Colleagues, Wall Street friends and readers remember Abelson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barron&#8217;s has collected a series of remembrances about Alan Abelson, its former editor and longtime columnist who died last week at the age of 87. Here is one from Rhonda Brammer, a former Barron&#8217;s contributing editor: The Barron&#8217;s magazine I joined in the early 1980s, back in the days of ticker tape and martini lunches,]]></description>
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		<title>Why we care about Wal-Mart earnings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Hester</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Company Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reporting “disappointing” earnings Thursday, it’s easy to shrug it off as not that big a deal. Many of Wal-Mart’s core customers continue to struggle in the current economy, making details about sales an interesting window into the broader U.S. situation. Here are a few earnings details from the Wall Street Journal:]]></description>
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		<title>Covering the changing retail landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Hester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the fire in a Bangladesh garment factory killed hundreds, several business news outlets have turned to covering where clothing comes from and the real costs of how it’s made. The Wall Street Journal reported that retailers are having trouble sourcing clothing that’s made to higher standards: The recent spate of garment-factory disasters in Bangladesh]]></description>
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		<title>What’s wrong with Windows 8?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Hester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft executives were unusually candid with reporters about the growing pains of it new Windows 8 operating system. As always when a large company’s future is being staked on a specific product, it’s progress generates coverage. Here’s the story from the Wall Street Journal: A Microsoft executive is acknowledging what many tech-watchers already knew: The company’s]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgages are back in the news again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 11:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Hester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were several stories Monday featuring Bank of America and the continued legal battles about the role the firm played in the mortgage meltdown. On the positive side, the bank entered into a settlement agreement with MBIA over mortgage securities, eliminating a large legal risk for both firms. Here are the details from the Wall Street]]></description>
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		<title>Getting lit up: How PR people become the story</title>
		<link>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/2/getting-lit-up-how-pr-people-become-the-story/</link>
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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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