Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts

Friday, January 14, 2011

Howard’s Inner Circle, No. 26: Eight Random Observations

1. There should be greater study as to why there is a jobless recovery.

2. Companies are extensively utilizing independent contractors and falsely representing them as employees to customers.

3. Standards of journalism are disappearing.

4. Consultants abound.

5. Blogs and social media both have a distinct stream of consciousness flavor whose impact isn’t fully understood yet.

6. More CEOs have not previously worked in the type of business that they manage.

7. Globalization, commodization, and marketing spin is changing the customer relationship into a defacto adversarial one.

8. Embracing diversity and looking for common ground
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Howard’s Inner Circle, No. 12: The Current Decrepit State of “Journalism”

One article entitled, “Ditching a $500,000 Salary to Teach Lit,” says it all. I found the article on Yahoo! Finance at http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109420/ditching-a-500000-salary-to-teach-lit?mod=career-worklife_balance. It was provided by CCNMoney.Com and written by a contributor.

What I expected as I read the title was a story about a difficult decision and how the transition went. The hope was to learn from this individual’s experience. I would have never read the article if the title, although a bit longer more accurately read “Ditching a $500,000 Salary and Selling Your Business at Age 50 for $6 Million to Teach Lit.” We can work at shortening my title if you want, but you get the idea. By the way, there were three bold faced tips in this short article on how he did it. They are 1. By Taking the First Good Offer; 2. By Investing Conservatively, and 3. By Drawing Down Cautiously.

This is the current state of “journalism.”

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The above is from the newsletter, Howard’s Inner Circle, which periodically appears on the blog, “Instigator” at http://howardwolosky.blogspot.com/. It may be reproduced in full if that fact is stated and Howard Wolosky is credited as the author.