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We Mean Business — 77 episodes

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Parasocial relationships in the age of social media

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Personalized persuasion and the role of AI

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How corporate pressure and silence lead to ethical collapse

4

This has to be rage bait: Outrage-driven engagement on social media

5

Nostalgia marketing: When the past becomes a strategy

6

The subscription trap and the cost of consumer inertia

7

Capturing the reality of underinsurance: The visual work behind “Burned”

8

Alexa York’s debut investigation uncovers radioactive contamination in Luckey, Ohio

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Faulty estimates, widespread losses: Inside San Francisco Chronicle reporters’ investigation of underinsurance and its impact

10

Student athletes or university employees? The shifting status – and compensation – of college athletes

11

The nonprofits cutting through red tape to help homeless veterans

12

The FDA lets ‘risky drugs’ into the U.S. market, ProPublica reporter explains their investigation

13

Congressional stock trading is hard to identify, but reporters persevere

14

Business journalists embrace Substack as a full-time platform

15

Creativity, technology, and the future of artistic expression

16

AI’s evolving role in art, storytelling, and marketing

17

The internet made me do it: Branding in the age of virality

18

Corporate sustainability and greenwashing: Navigating the fine line

19

Content that matters: Balancing strategy and authenticity on social media

20

The rise of consumerism and the loss of authentic choice

21

Online non-profit teams with local TV to show human side of Social Security’s $21 billion overpayment clawback

22

Small debts, big losses: The data work and reporting behind uncovering the impact of HOA foreclosures in North Carolina

23

Combo of deep beat knowledge and investigative know-how power investigation into medical misconduct

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Social Security overpayment clawbacks spur award-winning investigation – and outrage

25

Cultivating a document state of mind: Tips in investigative journalism with Jim Steele

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Emerging trends in e-commerce

27

The legal and ethical concerns of data driven marketing in technology

28

The ethics of AI and data usage in marketing

29

The movie business as a working union actor

30

What happens when you’re not on strike, but your industry is?

31

Who lost this year’s Super Bowl? It could be the taxpayers.

32

Don’t shy away from the business angle in your sports coverage

33

The business of college football with Amanda Christovich

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Bloomberg reporters gain answers to Cerebal Inc.’s ’Questionable Practices’

35

Business journalism advice for students with Jeff Timmermans

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Gender equity in the newsroom with Kristen Gilger

37

Data Analysis: A journalist’s superpower with Steve Doig

38

Sports streaming business with Todd Merkow

39

Media training with Susan Lisovicz

40

The Los Angeles Times uncovered Oxyconton's 12-hour problem. Here's how they did it.

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Testing a media-darling: How they did it.

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Global teamwork leads to impactful business investigation. Here's how they did it.

43

Tips for engaging business journalism students

44

An introduction to financial statements

45

Finding and using census data in your stories

46

Inside the award-winning investigation “Fish Slavery”

47

Finding regional employment data

48

Behind the award-winning investigation "Unchecked Care"

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More tips for building a winning business investigation

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Inside the award-winning investigation, Dying for Care

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Building winning business investigations

52

Covering the marijuana industry, part 3

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The business of the marijuana industry, part 2

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Covering the business of pot

55

Generating story ideas

56

Covering campaign finance

57

Databases you can use

58

Everyone’s a business journalist

59

Season 2's greatest tips

60

Micki Maynard and covering sports rivalries

61

Marilyn Geewax and part two from the editor’s point of view

62

Kim Quillen and the editor’s point of view

63

Dan Gillmor and dos and don’ts of tech coverage

64

Dan Gillmor and covering technology

65

Millennials and money with Rian Bosse

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Business for broadcast with Ben Bergman

67

Investigative reporting with Michael Grabell

68

Covering money and politics

69

Covering the business of sports

70

Interviewing small business owners

71

Dealing with ’big name’ CEOs

72

Finding the best sources

73

Asking the (good) dumb question

74

Writing business for broadcast

75

Elements of feature stories

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Common newsroom problem: Story ideas

77

Think like a business reporter