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This Week in Magazines -- Middle East Mayhem, Gagging Conservatives and Vicki Iseman's Side

James Warren | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, This Week in Magazines, Time Magazine, Gaza, The Economist, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Vicki Iseman, Businessweek, Media News
James Warren

Despite the difficulty for journalists in reporting on the latest mess in Gaza, given onerous press restrictions, it's an obvious topic for many magazines, with most suggesting more reason for fatalism.

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This Week in Magazines: Sex, Cars, and Malcolm Gladwell

James Warren | Posted 12.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Auto Bailout, Newsweek, This Week in Magazines, The New Yorker, Women's Health, Detroit, Businessweek, Media News
James Warren

If you inexplicably found any of those auto guys arousing in a more primal way, a leading news magazine suggests that "the quality of a man's sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa."

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The Media Myth: Detroit's $70-an-hour Autoworker

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Chrysler, Businessweek, National Review, Gm, New York Post, Barney Frank, Ford, Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, Uaw, Newt Gingrich, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Make no mistake: The $70-an-hour claim represents a classic case of conservative misinformation. It's also a very dangerous one.

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This Week in Magazines: Obama's Tough Calls, Real Missions for James Bond, and the Sex-Subprime Scandal

James Warren | Posted 11.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Bon Appetit, Newsweek, This Week in Magazines, Time Magazine, Foreign Policy Magazine, Businessweek, History News Network, Media News
James Warren

It's pretty unclear if the latest version of Bond could handle Foreign Policy's "The List: Five Real Missions for 007." Back in the real world, here's what I'd love a secret agent to do.

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This Week in Magazines: What's at Stake in the Election, Atlantic's Redesign and The New Yorker's Brainiacs

James Warren | Posted 11.02.2008 | Media

Read More: David Bromwich, This Week in Magazines, New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Journal, New York Review of Books, The Economist, Businessweek, Media News
James Warren

What's really at stake in Tuesday's election? Many usual suspects are opining in the cable universe, so for a cerebral alternative there's "A Fateful Election" in the Nov. 6 New York Review of Books.

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Hard Times

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 10.17.2008 | Media

Read More: The Lean Green Family, New York Times, Money, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

In his media column last week, The New York Times' David Carr wrote of "a smart young woman" in Hollywood who tells him that she is indeed feeling the...

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Media Morph

Charles Warner | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Iphone, New York Times, Pandora, Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Media News
Charles Warner

Newspaper and magazine content will continue to be valuable and read; it will just have a different, far less expensive and more rational distribution channel -- the Internet.

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An 'Open Source' Philosophy Of Government, Commerce & Innovation

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Nokia, Virgin, Symbian, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Helio, Jim Hansen, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Businessweek, Xp, Business News
Jerry Weinstein

Last week began with the return of eminence grise Jim Hansen, twenty years to the day since he first testified on warming. And it ended with Bill Gates riding off into the philanthropic sunset.

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Old? No, We're Just Older

Candy Spelling | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Growing Up, Businessweek, Life Magazine, Cooking, Housework, Aging, Medical Conditions, Baby Boomers, Wall Street Journal, Lifestyle Changes, Driving, Living News
Candy Spelling

I had no worries when the Beatles wondered about life "when I'm 64," or when the Who sang they hoped to "die before I get old." We were never getting old.

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"U.S. Multinationals Have Been Decoupling from the U.S. Economy," says BusinessWeek

Robert Weissman | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Multinationals, Job Blackmail, Trade, Dollar, Exports, Semiconductor Industry Association, Advanced Micro Devices, Hector Ruiz, George Scalise, Multinational Monitor, Businessweek, Business News
Robert Weissman

The article emphasizes that the success of U.S.-based multinationals is not doing much to help the U.S. economy, by the measures that matter most.

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Winning in the Workplace

Candy Spelling | Posted 02.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Ageism, Labor, USA Today, Businessweek, Baby Boomers, Older Workers., Retirement, Living News
Candy Spelling

Now we have states and offspring with growing businesses actively recruiting seasoned boomers to enhance, improve and run businesses.

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Wal-Mart Gives The New Yorker (And Forbes, Fortune, BizWeek etc) The Boot

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 01.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Keith Kelly, Conde Nast, New Yorker, Wal-Mart, Magazine Industry, Businessweek, Forbes, Fortune, Adam Gopnik, Magazine Racks, Business News

Good luck getting your hands on Adam Gopnik's latest treatise next time you visit your local Wal-Mart (WMT). The world's biggest retailer is pulling C...

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Ex-Goldman Associate Sentenced For Multiple Insider Trading Schemes

New York Times | MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Posted 01.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Harvard, Goldman Sachs, Sec, Insider Trading, Eugene Plotkin, Businessweek, Stanislav Shpigelman, David Pajcin, Business News

A former Goldman Sachs associate who was accused of masterminding one of the broadest insider-trading conspiracies in years was sentenced on Thursday ...

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BusinessWeek Makes Cuts As Print, Online Editions Attempt To Integrate

Women's Wear Daily | Stephanie D. Smith | Posted 12.13.2007 | Media

Read More: Business Week, Magazine Cuts, Businessweek, Steven Adler, Business Week Staff, Media News

BusinessWeek on Wednesday unveiled a reshuffling of its editorial team and layoffs of a dozen staffers on the business and editorial sides, cuts staff...

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BusinessWeek "Reorganizes," Lays Off Staffers

Silicon Valley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 12.12.2007 | Business

Read More: Magazine Layoffs, Businessweek, Businessweek Layoffs, Stephen Adler, Business News

Are you sick of this cleaver image? Us too. Alas: BusinessWeek is laying off 8 to 10 12 staffers, "mostly from the magazine" and not the pub's website...

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United Airlines Is Looking To Merge

Reuters | Posted 11.22.2007 | Business

Read More: Ual, Businessweek, Airline Merger, Airline Industry, Delta, United Airlines, Business News

UAL Corp (UAUA.O), parent of the No. 2 U.S. carrier United Airlines, is keen for a possible merger, according to an article in the Dec 3 edition of Bu...

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BusinessWeek Spotlights Best B-School Professors

BusinessWeek | Dan Macsai | Posted 09.20.2007 | Business

Read More: Business School, BusinessWeek, B-School, Business News

Engaging a room full of college kids is no easy task, but these professors make it seem simple. From good-luck snacks to glowing recommendations, sere...

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