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Bob Papper, Professor Emeritus at Hofstra is out with his annual report on radio news department salaries. Papper reports that news salaries at radio stations increased more slowly in the last year, but for the second year in a row, overall radio news salaries have exceeded inflation in a five-year comparison.

(By Rick Fink) Regardless of what part of the country you live in or what type of business you run, if you ask a business owner today what the most difficult thing about running a company is, they will tell you it's finding good employees. Here are some tips to give you an edge in the marketplace.

On Wednesday morning iHeartMedia filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list its Class "A" common shares. iHeart is exiting from bankruptcy with half the debt it had just over one year ago.

On Tuesday Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti surprised iHeartMedia's Thea Mitchem. Mitchem will be on the cover of our Most Influential Women in Radio issue (5/27). Mitchem is EVP of Programming for iHeart's Northeast Region and PD for WWPR-FM in New York City. We have video.

That's what the iHeartMedia CEO told NBC News Senior Media Editor Claire Atkinson in an interview Tuesday. And, Pittman said, people don’t quite appreciate the nuance of it. So he explained that nuance.

More changes at Alpha Media. After nearly a decade in the position, Executive Vice President Scott Mahalick is leaving the company. His final day is Monday. Mahalick has been on Radio Ink's Top Leader's List for the past several years.

CEO David Field announced the six management changes in a memo to employees, Tuesday. Field said the title updates "better reflect the work already being done by each of these important members of the Entercom team." Here are the changes...

The company is calling it an audio and visual refresh of the all-News station. On Tuesday, KCBS debuted new imaging, featuring voiceover artists Randy Thomas and Roberta Solomon, and this new logo. We've included the old logo in the story so you can see the change.

It was one year ago that iHeartMedia announced a new deal for KGB-FM San Diego morning man Bob Buchmann. Tuesday, a bewildered Buchmann told his listeners via Facebook that his job was eliminated and he was "in a lot of shock."

Every Wednesday, Integr8 Research has been teasing out results of a new study called “The Alexa Effect: How Radio Can Thrive in a Connected World.” The fourth blog in this five-part series is called, “Radio, She’s Just Not That Into You,”