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		<title>Know your stuff: Developing expertise in your coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Glasser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this five-part series, we’ll look at some of the challenges that young business journalists face in today’s media landscape. A common theme running through all five installments is the recognition that avoiding errors is a journalist’s first responsibility. News moves faster, farther and wider than ever before, and given the ever-increasing volatility of markets,]]></description>
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		<title>Best Business Writing 2013 is now available</title>
		<link>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/best-business-writing-2013-is-now-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anthology Malcolm Gladwell has called “riveting and indispensable,” The Best Business Writing 2013 is a far-ranging survey of business’s dynamic relationship with politics, culture, and life. This year’s selections include John Markoff (New York Times) on innovations in robot technology and the decline of the factory worker; Evgeny Morozov (New Republic) on the questionable]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding errors, and what to do when they happen</title>
		<link>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/2/avoiding-errors-and-what-to-do-when-they-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KBlessing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quick pace of social media and the Web have escalated the importance of getting a story right the first time and avoiding errors as a journalist, said Forbes managing editor for business news Dan Bigman in a conference call with Forbes contributors from New York Tuesday. &#8220;Just correcting an error doesn&#8217;t necessarily correct the]]></description>
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		<title>How to &#8220;cover&#8221; the solar industry</title>
		<link>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/how-to-cover-the-solar-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carter Lavin writes, tongue firmly in cheek, on Clean Technica about how business journalists should write about the solar industry. Lavin writes, &#8220;The solar industry is convoluted and relatively esoteric, so when good business reporters write about the business, it’s not a surprise that they don’t get everything correct, but it is a shame. These]]></description>
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		<title>Frankie Flack: Why quote approval is sometimes necessary</title>
		<link>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/2/why-quote-approval-is-sometimes-necessary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frankie Flack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: Here is the latest missive from Frankie Flack, our anonymous New York-based PR executive. In July of last year Jeremy Peters of The New York Times penned a piece titled “Latest Word on the Trail? I Take It Back” that struck like a sudden earthquake in the journalism and public relations field. Peters deftly]]></description>
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		<title>Business journalism and plagiarism</title>
		<link>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/business-journalism-and-plagiarism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talking Biz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy English, the ombudsman at the Toronto Star, writes about how the paper investigated allegations of plagiarism against one of its business reporters. English writes, &#8220;Reporter Madhavi Acharya-Tom Yew apologized immediately for her &#8216;poor judgment&#8217; in lifting words from the Globe. This was a significant mistake and managing editor Jane Davenport launched a review of]]></description>
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		<title>Journalists are suckers for good economics metaphors</title>
		<link>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/2/journalists-are-suckers-for-good-economics-metaphors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/2/journalists-are-suckers-for-good-economics-metaphors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalists are suckers for good economics metaphors because economics like to use them to explain what is going on with the economy, said a prominent economics reporter on Saturday. &#8220;I happen to believe it&#8217;s not just a rhetorical truck to use a metaphor,&#8221; said Peter Coy, economics editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, at the History of]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter&#8217;s Luckie talks strategy for journalists</title>
		<link>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/2/twitters-luckie-talks-strategy-for-journalists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/2/twitters-luckie-talks-strategy-for-journalists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KBlessing</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a way to develop better social media engagement strategies, journalists should treat Twitter and other outlets as an extension of their interaction with people in their personal life rather than as a separate entity, said Mark Luckie, manager of journalism and news at Twitter in a conference call with Forbes writers from New York]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Apple&#8217;s CEO to talk</title>
		<link>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/getting-apples-ceo-to-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie Moos of the Poynter Institute was able to get Bloomberg Businessweek editor in chief Josh Tyrangiel to answer some questions about its cover-story this week, which was an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. Here is an excerpt: Poynter: How did the interview come about? Josh Tyrangiel: Businessweek has had a good relationship with]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of investigative reporting in business journalism</title>
		<link>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/the-importance-of-investigative-reporting-in-business-journalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/the-importance-of-investigative-reporting-in-business-journalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Roush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review spoke Thursday at Yale University about  the media’s failure in predicting the 2008 financial crisis before it occurred to underscore the need for effective investigative journalism, or &#8220;accountability reporting.&#8221; Tianyi Pan of the Yale Daily News writes, &#8220;Starkman told the audience about Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Richard Lord, whom]]></description>
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