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Whatever happened to Iraq? How the media lost interest in a long-running war with no end in sight
Armando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a Sunday column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it. [ILLUSTRATION...
Tags: American, Americans, Fox News Channel, Friedman, McClatchy Newspapers Inc., Times
Research articles 2008-06-01
Will Shipping Fuel Price Hikes Scuttle Globalization?
Last weekend, I had to feel salt water. In my case, that means a short drive down to the Hampton Roads, Va. area where I get the extra benefit of seeing the big container ships roll in with their cargoes of cars, white goods, T shirts and place mats. I...
Tags: Peter Galuszka, Management, Strategy, Transportation, Globalization, Times, Ship
Blog posts 2008-08-05
Web Traffic Counts Are Off; Will Advertisers Run?
Do you know how much traffic your website gets? Here's a better question: do your advertisers trust that number's accuracy? Tracking companies seem to be at odds when it comes to keeping count -- and their estimates are often dramatically less than companies' internal calculations. The New York Times used Style.com...
Tags: Times, Advertiser, ComScore Networks Inc., Web, Channel Management, Marketing, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-10-23
Office Romances Increasingly Out in the Open
Office romance may have been around for as long as there have been offices, but what was once a clandestine secret to be kept hidden from the disapproving eyes of HR, has become a more and more acceptable and open part of working life, the NY Times reports this week....
Tags: Microsoft Office, Jessica Stillman, Harassment, Times, Survey, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
Blog posts 2007-10-12
How to Fight the Afternoon Yawns
Everyone knows the feeling. You've just come back from lunch, and there's a stack of work two feet high on your desk. You know you should be working busily along, but for some reason you just can't seem to keep your eyes open or your thoughts straight. What's going on?...
Tags: Policies And Procedures, Mice, Human Resources, Hardware, Peripherals, Jessica Stillman, Times, Worker, Dip
Blog posts 2007-08-20
The effectiveness of audiovisual regulation inside the European Union: the television without frontiers directive and cultural protectionism
I. INTRODUCTION In early January of 2002, Jean-Marie Messier, the chief executive of French audiovisual giant Vivendi Universal, held a press conference to discuss his company's latest acquisition: American-based USA Network's media business. (1) During the conference, a French journalist asked Messier whether this latest $10.8 billion purchase marked...
Tags: American, American Media Inc., Collins, Council, Culture, English, European Culture, Europeans, James, Michael, Regulation, Times
Research articles 2003-09-22
"Liberated by the Yanks": the Holocaust as an American story in postwar news articles
During World War II, The Washington Post was essentially a local newspaper whose hometown just happened to be the nation's capital. Like most American newspapers, it did not send many reporters abroad, relying primarily on the wire services to keep its readers abreast of the war's progress. It ran front-page...
Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Army, Holocaust, Jews, New York Times Co., Press, Times, Washington Post Co.
Research articles 2003-09-22
The patriot war of 1837-1838: locofocoism with a gun?
THIS PAPER PRESENTS a reinterpretation of the causes for the us Patriot movement of 1837-38, which rose up in support of the Canadian rebellion in Upper Canada UC initiated by William Lyon Mackenzie (the companion rebellion in Lower Canada is not considered in this paper since its causation was arguably...
Tags: American, American General, Americans, Bryan, Charles, D., Fall, Historians, History, John, Journal, Jr., Lake, Life, Navy, Revolution, Times, Vol, West, William
Research articles 2003-09-22
A Matter of Opinion: Who's Trying to Silence Free Speech?
Tobin, Jonathan S. Jewish Exponent 05-16-2002 For some readers of America's newspaper of record, it must have been the last straw. While there have been charges and arguments of The New York Times slanting its news and opinion pages against Israel, the...
Tags: American Media Inc., History, Judaism, Rich, Times, York
Research articles 2002-05-16
"Super jumbo" problem: Boeing, Airbus, and the battle for the geopolitical future
ABSTRACT The commercial aircraft industry is important to the United States for both economic and political reasons. Economically, commercial aviation has been the linchpin of the military-industrial complex and a positive actor on many other segments of U.S. industry. Politically, Boeing has ensured the lead of the United States...
Tags: Airbus S.A.S., Boeing Co., J., John, Times, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2002-05-01
Including the Negative About the Dead
When Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashed en route to Washington in January, among Seattle's dead were a fun-loving gay couple, a millionaire businessman, fiances returning from missionary work in Mexico--and Stanford Poll, who in the '70s "was subpoenaed as a material witness in a criminal investigation into payoffs to Seattle...
Tags: Seattle Times Co., Times
Research articles 2000-04-01
Uplifting Tradition: a former owner of Quill Corp. and his Northbrook rabbi are trying to give a boost to Conservative Judaism in England
UPLIFTING TRADITION: A former owner of Quill Corp. and his Northbrook rabbi are trying to give a boost to Conservative Judaism in England In looking at the development of the Conservative movement, a 19th Century creation, this is striking: both Zechariah Frankel and Solomon Schechter, its two intellectual pillars, were...
Tags: Miller, Quill Corp., Times
Research articles 2000-03-02
Close the Records or Lose the Money
Nalder calls it "reporting by moving in and hanging around." It's a technique the two-time Pulitzer winner and chief investigative reporter at the Seattle Times has mastered over the years. When Nalder, 54, wants access to documents for a story--inevitably documents the government is reluctant to open up--he takes...
Tags: Seattle Times Co., Times
Research articles 2000-03-01
The Digital New World Order: A View from the Private Sector
The digital revolution in cartography, like nearly everything else in the world, changes in appearance as it is viewed from different angles. All of us, as cartographers, are dealing with the same technical changes. But cartographers in business see the current situation from a different perspective than our academic or...
Tags: Budget, Electromap Inc., Labor, National Geographic, Note, Rand McNally & Co., Society, Times
Research articles 1999-07-01
The European systems of central banks: quo vadis?
I. INTRODUCTION After years of unsuccessful attempts to achieve monetary integration within the area of the European Union Elf,(1) the Economic and Monetary Union EMU, as set forth under the newly designed Treaty Establishing the European Community EC Treaty,(2) entered the third and final stage of monetary integration on...
Tags: Community, CONCLUSIONS, Constitution, Council, Deutsche Bundesbank, European Central Bank, European Parliament, Government, Green, II, INTRODUCTION, J., Jacques, L, Resolution, Rome, Times
Research articles 1999-01-01
The Numbers Behind The Times' Threat to Fold the Globe
When here at Bnet we started suggesting last year that The New York Times was headed for financial trouble, I heard from some readers who scoffed at the notion that the nation's top newspaper could falter. What had led to my concern was problems with the company's financials as revealed...
Tags: SEC, Times, Workforce Management, Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Marketing, Finance, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-04-06
Twitter Indeed Surpasses New York Times
So, the proof is in. As we predicted last month, April was the month that Twitter grew bigger than The New York Times on the Web, according to Compete.com. A few observations: Most people access Twitter not via the web but via a...
Tags: New York Times Co., Twitter, Times, Channel Management, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-05-08
Go Ice Skating, Become a Better Leader
Times are challenging for organizational leaders, no doubt about it. But when the going gets tough, the tough go...ice skating? Yes. According to Celia Irvine, any activity that makes you more focused and relaxed can pay off at work. by CC Holland
Tags: Ice, Leader, Times, Leadership, Management, CC Holland
Blog posts 2009-04-28
Omnicom, in Cash Crunch, to Delay Payments to U.S. TV Producers
Omnicom is requiring that U.S. commercial producers wait until clients pay its agencies before they pay the producers' bills. The news, reported by Adweek, confirms that Omnicom is doing everything it can to slow down outgoing cash payments as clients slow down their payments to agencies. BNET...
Tags: Adweek, Payment, Agency, Client, Omnicom, Omnicom Client, Times, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-03-12
Should Companies Reprice Underwater Stock Options?
Given today's market conditions, most employee stock options are underwater and worthless. When companies repriced options after the Internet bubble burst, shareholders revolted. Times are different now but the debate's the same: should companies reprice options? The answer might be a welcome remedy for underwater option sufferers. by Steve Tobak
Tags: Stock Option, Stock, Times, Stock Options & Grants, Stock Options, Benefits, Personal Finance, Internet, Financial Accounting, Investment, Human Resources, Finance, Steve Tobak
Blog posts 2009-04-09
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