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Company data sitting in a spreadsheet somewhere just broke a national news story. Here's how.

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Journalists find news everywhere: from conversations and interviews, research reports and press releases, and things they observe out in the real world. One way reporters are increasingly breaking news is by using data that is pulled from companies’ internal records and shared with them by marketing…

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    Journalists find news everywhere: from conversations and interviews, research reports and press releases, and things they observe out in the real world. One way reporters are increasingly breaking news is by using data that is pulled from companies’ internal records and shared with them by marketing…

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