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1. Find out how healthy your country is.

2. What's with all the Google anti-trust lawsuits?

*3. The Washington Post reports on why TV reporters have to be  Jacks of All Trades now.

4. Here are the eight companies that gave the most to help Haiti.

*5. The number of U.S. millionaires rose 16 percent last year.

6. Find out why there will be a national Eggo waffle shortage until summer.

*7. The New York Times explains how women in the work force helped save Social Security.

8. Here are some great databases that newsrooms have created to help connect people with their community.

9. Learn more about the new Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

*10. CBS Radio News' Peter King explains how he broadcast from Haiti in the early days after the quake.

11. The FCC investigates the health and future of local news.

12. Levelcam lets you stabilize your handheld video.

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Bob Dotson: The Hey, You, See and So Stories
NBC News Correspondent Bob Dotson spoke to a standing-room-only crowd yesterday at the RTNDA/NAB convention. He talked about the art of telling stories that others may not normally see.

Journalists are used to answering the who, what, when where and why questions in their stories. But they should also pay attention, Dotson said, to the "hey, you, see and so" of stories.




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Posted by Al Tompkins at 12:30 AM on Apr. 17, 2008
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