Business Columns
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Feder: 'Consultant' Bill Shine casts Fox shadow over 'NewsNation'Feb 08, 2021 12:00 am - After two decades as a senior executive at Fox News and a protégé of chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, Bill Shine was fired in 2017 for his role in enabling the sexual haras...
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Feder: News director Sandy Pudar bails out of 'NewsNation'Feb 03, 2021 12:00 am - Just weeks before the planned expansion of "NewsNation," the Chicago-based cable news operation on WGN America suddenly finds itself without a news director, Robert Fede...
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Feder: Report says ex-CBS 2 boss tried in vain to 'change the culture'Jan 26, 2021 12:00 am - In 2018 Marty Wilke stunned the Chicago media community when she abruptly resigned after six years as president and general manager of CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, Robert F...
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Tracing the unexpected key to their quick successJan 22, 2021 12:00 am - In a little more than three months Kate O'Donnell, Pattie Fuentes and Anne Amick started a contact tracing company and turned it into a profitable software company that ...
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How COVID-19 has affected new home construction in the Fox ValleyJan 21, 2021 5:00 am - It's not as easy as it was in, say, the late 1980s and through the '90s and early 2000s to spot full-blown subdivision construction unfolding in the Tri-Cities and surro...
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Feder: Jerome McDonnell 'pushed from the nest' at WBEZJan 20, 2021 12:00 am - Chicago Public Media WBEZ 91.5-FM bid farewell this week to Jerome McDonnell, who hosted the international affairs talk show "Worldview" for 25 years until its cancellat...
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Feder: Media watchdog Steve Rhodes suspends Beachwood ReporterJan 19, 2021 12:00 am - There's one less watchdog keeping an eye on Chicago media these days. Veteran journalist Steve Rhodes is stepping back after 15 years as media critic for The Beachwood R...
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Unconditional commitment yields sales successJan 19, 2021 12:00 am - In today's world, about 80% of salespeople ended up with a sales career as a default choice. They did not set out to be salespeople, but found themselves in this challen...
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Feder: Three jobs cut in 'incredibly painful' layoffs at Univision Chicago stationsJan 15, 2021 12:00 am - Veteran sports director Hector Lozano and midday co-host/entertainment reporter Aureliano "Auri" Salgado were among three longtime staffers at Univision Chicago who lost...
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Feder: WLS Radio owner Cumulus Media forbids talk of 'stolen elections'Jan 12, 2021 12:00 am - Cumulus Media, parent company of conservative news/talk stations nationwide including Chicago's WLS 890-AM, has ordered its talk show hosts to refrain from spreading lie...