Business Columns
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Feder: NBC 5 to stick with Michelle Relerford as solo weekend anchorJun 15, 2020 1:00 am - Don't look for WMAQ-Channel 5 to replace the late Dick Johnson as weekend news anchor at the NBC-owned station any time soon, Robert Feder writes. That's the official wo...
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Sales Moves: Is there really a new normal?Jun 15, 2020 1:00 am - I am a language junkie and pay close attention to the way those around me craft their thoughts into sentences. I look for patterns of speech and streams of consciousness...
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Wanted: Servers who can lift 100 pounds. Working life in the coronavirus economy is changing.Jun 14, 2020 6:12 am - As states reopened after coronavirus lockdowns, millions of Americans returned to work in May. Many found their hours were cut, their pay was reduced, and their job desc...
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Corporate America takes the internship online this summerJun 13, 2020 6:16 am - College students have already been uprooted from their dorm rooms to their parents' basements, forced to finish their semester online and faced with the dire prospect of...
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Feder: Oprah to bring pomp and circumstance to Chicago's virtual graduation SundayJun 12, 2020 1:00 am - Eight Chicago television stations are onboard to broadcast a star-studded virtual graduation ceremony for the city's 35,000 high school seniors. Airing at 1 p.m. Sunday,...
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Feder: CBS 2 wins Peabody Award for Dave Savini seriesJun 11, 2020 1:00 am - CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 won a Peabody Award Wednesday for "Unwarranted," reporter Dave Savini's ongoing investigation of Chicago police conducting raids on the wrong ho...
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Feder: WGN Radio cancels Rick Pearson's 'Sunday Spin' for music showJun 10, 2020 1:00 am - With a presidential election less than five months away, WGN 720-AM is about to drop its weekly political talk show to add another nostalgic music program to its lineup,...
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Feder: Middlebrooks exits with WBBM Newsradio on topJun 09, 2020 1:00 am - Audience shares declined from their sky-high levels in April for Chicago's news and news/talk radio stations, but WBBM 780-AM/WCFS 105.9-FM continued to lead the market ...
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Feder: Nexstar boss decries 'endless adrenaline shots of conflict'Jun 08, 2020 1:00 am - The head of the nation's largest owner of television stations - including Chicago's WGN-Channel 9 - is challenging his company's local newsrooms to "personalize, humaniz...
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Workplace retirement celebrations are another casualty of pandemicJun 07, 2020 6:00 am - Q: I recently retired from the company where I had been for six years. Since the pandemic, everyone had been working from home. Even though my retirement was announced t...