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Ten years after the financial crisis, business journalism awaits its reckoning
Ten years ago, Lehman Brothers, the venerable Wall Street firm, shut down after a failed rescue effort by the US Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve. Panic spread, along with rumors that other Wall Street banks were next. Stock markets plummeted as regulators and central bankers scrambled to save one big financial institution after another. […]
Hodgepodge, ladder up, and hurtling over hurdles
This column is a “hodgepodge” of items. First up is “ladder up,” a relatively new verb form. A report of a new “content management platform” said it allowed users to “Organize everything needed to complete the campaign in one place—including all sub-campaigns that ladder up to the broader initiative.” In another publication, a workplace consultant […]
Roosevelt Island has three news outlets, but no working water fountains
Roosevelt Island, a thin, roughly two-mile sliver of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, is home to some 14,000 New Yorkers and three independent local news outlets: The Main Street Wire, a bi-weekly print publication, and Roosevelt Islander and Roosevelt Island Daily, both blogs. The Island, a zip code unto itself, is […]
The indispensable appeal of local weather reporters
As the week began, Hurricane Florence was shaping up to be a once-in-a-generation storm, and for Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the forecast just kept getting worse. At WMBF-TV, the NBC affiliate in town, chief meteorologist Jamie Arnold and his team pored through National Hurricane Center updates and dug into computerized weather simulations to predict the […]
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