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☆ WNYC Parent to Cut 12% of Work Force
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Benjamin Mullin | More About Benjamin Mullin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

New York Public Radio, the parent organization of the WNYC news station, said on Tuesday that it was planning to cut its work force by about 12 percent. LaFontaine Oliver, New York Public Radio’s president and chief executive, said in a memo to employees that a “free fall in the advertising market” had led to the decision to cut staff. “I know this news is hard to hear, and knowing macroeconomic factors have led to this moment doesn’t soften the blow when national trends land on your own doorstep,” Mr. Oliver said. New York Public Radio, a nonprofit, operates WNYC, the classical music station WQXR and the Gothamist local news site. New York Public Radio is also planning to eliminate a majority of open positions, Mr. Oliver said in his memo.

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☆ Ginger Adams Otis — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ginger Adams OtisGinger Adams Otis covers breaking news for The Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining the Journal, she worked at the New York Daily News as a senior reporter, editor and Metro Editor. She was a frequent contributor to the BBC on breaking news and the author of “Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest,” (Macmillan, 2015). Previously, she worked at the NY Post as a staff reporter and freelanced for WNYC/NPR and the Associated Press, among other national and international outlets.

Persons: Ginger Adams Otis Ginger Adams Otis Organizations: Wall Street, New York Daily News, Metro, BBC, Post, WNYC, NPR, Associated Press

☆ Clarence Thomas's first public scandal came in 1980, when he was a no-name aide to a GOP senator and complained to a journalist that his sister just waited by the mailbox for her welfare check
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In 1980, 32-year-old Clarence Thomas was a no-name aide to a Republican senator. At a conference for Black conservatives, he complained to a journalist about his sister being on welfare. The journalist, Juan Williams, wrote a column about it that caught the attention of Reagan's team. "She gets mad when the mailman is late with her welfare check," Thomas said, according to Williams. Reagan ended up making massive cuts to welfare programs and allowing states to institute work requirements for welfare recipients.

☆ Before Dylan, There Was Connie Converse. Then She Vanished.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Howard Fishman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Connie Converse was a pioneer of what’s become known as the singer-songwriter era, making music in the predawn of a movement that had its roots in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s. But her songs, created a decade earlier, arrived just a moment too soon. And by the time the sun had come up in the form of a young Bob Dylan, she was already gone. She had vanished from New York City, as she eventually would from the world, along with her music and legacy. student heard a 1954 bootleg recording of Ms. Converse on WNYC, that her music started to get any of the attention and respect that had evaded her some 50 years before.

☆ Ryuichi Sakamoto, composer of 'The Last Emperor' film score, dies aged 71
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Elaine Lies | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and member of the jury for the upcoming 68th Berlinale International Film Festival attends a news conference in Berlin, Germany, February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File PhotoTOKYO, April 2 (Reuters) - Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer famed for his scores for "The Last Emperor", "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" and other films, has died aged 71, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported on Sunday. Sakamoto was also known for his work with the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) which he co-founded. Embracing electronic music, he and fellow studio musicians Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi formed YMO in 1978. His most celebrated work was 1987's "The Last Emperor" - a film in which he also acted.

☆ Sunlight in your bedroom could become a luxury as cities debate allowing landlords to rent windowless rooms in former office buildings to alleviate the housing crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Housing advocates are debating whether windowless bedrooms are the solution to the housing crisis. Enter windowless bedrooms. Journalist Matt Yglesias argued last year that windowless bedrooms would "save downtowns" by facilitating the mass retrofitting of office buildings into apartments. Supporters argue that building apartments with windowless bedrooms could both help alleviate the severe housing shortage and affordability crisis and repopulate urban business districts. But in recent years, windowless bedrooms have become somewhat normalized on college campuses.

NBC News has repeatedly contacted Santos’ team with requests for comment about his lies and other allegations against him. Here is a timeline mapping out the controversy:Nov. 3, 2020: Santos loses his first bid for Congress to Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi. Sept. 6, 2022: Santos files his personal financial disclosure report, claiming his assets are as much as $11 million. The New York Times later reported that none of the 49 victims appear to have worked at the various firms named in his biography. In another Dec. 26 interview with the New York Post, Santos acknowledges some of the specific fabrications in his résumé.

☆ Insider Life: Airbnb for pools — Ritzy summer camp drama — Exclusive NY club
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-23 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

We spent a day at the exclusive members-only club, where the wealthy escape to homes starting at $2.7 million. Raquette Lake Camp; Tyler Hill Camp; Timber Lake Camp; Camp Modin; Samantha Lee/InsiderStressed-out parents at some of the country's fanciest summer camps are driving staff nuts over their kids' photos. Maximilian BüsserSwitzerland-born Maximilian Büsser left corporate jobs at large watch companies to start his own brand, MB&F. The luxury watch designer, who travels between Dubai and Geneva, is known for producing futuristic-looking timepieces inspired by characters like Captain Kirk, and that sell for up to $500,000. Inside the daily routine of a luxury watch brand founder.

☆ Photos show the trail of destruction inside the US Capitol following an attempted coup by pro-Trump supporters
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-07 | by ( Madison Hall | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The protests turned into riots, leading to the Capitol building being evacuated as insurrectionists stormed the building in an attempted coup. Rioters left a trail of destruction inside of the Capitol as they entered congressional offices. Journalists returning to the Capitol building the next day documented the destruction remaining. In the hours following, the Capitol building was attacked by thousands of insurrectionists, ultimately breaching the building at 1:30 p.m. Many documented their findings, sharing them on social media:—Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) January 7, 2021—Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) January 7, 2021—Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) January 7, 2021—Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) January 7, 2021—Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) January 7, 2021

☆ Un jurnalist de la celebra revistă New Yorker a fost concediat după ce a fost surprins de colegi pe Zoom într-o ipostază indecentă: Se masturba
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-12 | by ( ) www.ziarulnational.md time to read: +1 min

Jurnalistul revistei New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin, în vârstă de 60 de ani, care este și analist juridic senior pentru CNN, a fost concediat după ce a apărut în ipostaze indecente în fața colegilor, într-un apel pe Zoom, scrie BBC. Compania a transmis un mesaj angajaților în care îi anunță de decizia luată, iar jurnalistul a confirmat pe contul să de Twitter despărțirea. Incidentul a avut loc luna trecută, în timpul unei simulări electorale care a implicat radioul New Yorker și WNYC, când colegii lui Toobin l-au văzut pe acesta masturbându-se în timp ce se afla într-un apel video separat. Imediat după incident, Toobin a declarat: „Am făcut o greșeală jenant de stupidă, crezând că sunt în afara camerei”. Am crezut că am dezactivat videoclipul Zoom”, a mai spus acesta pentru revista Vice.

Persons: Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, Conde Nast, Toobin, Zoom Organizations: BBC Locations: New Yorker, New York, WNYC

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