Posted in Walletpop on Mar 15th, 2010
I recently wrote about Daylight Saving Time and how it doesn’t really save people money. Mike Sugerman, a reporter at KCBS radio in San Francisco, found it last week and came over to the house to interview me for the story. We talked for about five minutes, and I expected to be on his segment [...]
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Posted in Walletpop on Feb 28th, 2010
Like many journalists, I get a lot of pitches from public relations people. Most are good, but some are bad. I edit and write about these topics at WalletPop, a personal finance Web site run by Aol: recession, career, technology, sports & money. I get plenty of story pitches each week, and I’m glad to [...]
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Posted in rant, Walletpop on Feb 3rd, 2010
Aaron Crowe I’ve thought this for a long time, but it really struck me today in two separate events: Every business should hire a journalist if it wants to be successful. What would a journalist do for a company? Many things, which I’ll get to in a bit, but up high on that list is [...]
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