And much of the angry commenting on articles skeptical of the Tower? Yeah, that was an unethical PR campaign that involved fake social media profiles – and resulted in at least one resignation.
Tag: 07.31.13
Why Overstock Started A Books Price War With Amazon
” I’ve been really planning this move for many years, just waiting for the right time to pull the trigger on it. And we do think that we represent a credible alternative to Amazon.”
Toronto Symphony CEO Resigns, Apparently From Exhaustion
As the board chairman’s announcement put it, “With the greatest reluctance I have accepted Andrew’s decision to retire later this year.” Andrew Shaw “is the guy who is largely credited with saving the TSO from disaster after its near-death crisis in 2001, when bankruptcy and scandal loomed, and the entire board of directors had to resign.”
Who Was Russia’s Shakespeare? (No, Not Pushkin)
“‘What a pity people can’t fly like birds.’ These lines from a monologue by Katerina, the heroine of the play The Storm, are known to everyone in Russia, as is the name of the author, Alexander Ostrovsky, a dramatist and theater reformer.”
Meaningful Discourse About Art In 100-Character Bursts?
“Art Rules is a new platform for online conversation about what art is, isn’t and should be; about how best to make art and survive as an artist; about what to aspire to, read, or avoid like the plague.”
US Bureau Of Economic Analysis Tweaks GDP Calculation To Include Movies, Intellectual Property
“For example, the production costs of what the B.E.A., a part of the Commerce Department, calls “long-lived TV shows” — ones that provide a steady stream of income, like “Seinfeld” reruns — will for the first time be counted as investment. That’s right — the ultimate show about nothing will now add billions to G.D.P.”
San Antonio Symphony CEO Leaves After Only Three Months
“The San Antonio Symphony on Wednesday said its president and CEO, Jack Downey, has left after less than three months on the job following a budget dispute with organization’s board chairman. … Downey’s departure and [David] Green’s interim role means the symphony’s top administrative position has been held by four different people since late November.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer Lays Off One-Third Of Newsroom Staff
“The cuts, part of owner Advance Publications’ shift to a ‘digital-first’ strategy, gutted the newspaper of about 50 experienced journalists.” Among the writers losing their jobs is longtime classical music and dance critic Donald Rosenberg.
Tom Stoppard Wins 2013 PEN/Pinter Prize
“The prize, which was launched in 2009 by the freedom of expression charity English PEN, is given to a writer that shows, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel literature prize acceptance speech, a ‘fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’.”
McSweeney’s Archive Headed To Texas
“While informal archives of McSweeney’s, the eclectic literary magazine created by Dave Eggers, can be found in living rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms of apartments across New York, a more proper collection of the assets of this prestigious journal and its sibling publications is headed to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.”