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☆ The housing-affordability crisis is sparking startup founders, Wall Streeters, and nonprofit leaders to try to offer new solutions
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Hana R. Alberts | Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Some innovations may help homebuyers, renters, and investors cope with the affordability crisis. 100 People Transforming Business is an annual list highlighting people across industries who are changing the way the world does business. Mortgage rates have topped 7%, the highest rate in 20 years, which means homebuyers can afford less house for their money. That's why many people and companies in the real-estate industry are trying to help homebuyers, renters, and investors cope with an affordability crisis. That's where the Washington, DC, nonprofit Grounded Solutions Network comes in: It says it helps repurpose "vacant space into vibrant space."

☆ Bloomberg and CNN won't pay for Twitter verification for reporters, as newsrooms consider Musk's new plan
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Twitter is planning to require users to pay to keep their verification. When reports emerged that the Elon Musk-operated Twitter planned to require users to pay to keep their blue verification badges, a question blossomed in newsrooms: Would media companies front the bill for their reporters? One media company, however, would certainly cover the cost of Twitter verification: Puck. Musk wrote on Twitter last week that he planned to charge $8 per month for a "Twitter Blue" subscription that would include verification. Long considered Twitter power users, journalists make up a large contingent of verified users on the platform, along with celebrities, organizations, and brands.

☆ Newsrooms consider whether to pay for Twitter verification for journalists. For CNN, it's 'highly unlikely,' but for Puck, it's a resounding yes.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Twitter is reportedly planning to require users to pay $20 a month to keep their verification. CNN is unlikely to pay for everyone, while Puck said doing so for its dozen writers was a no brainer. One media company, however, would certainly cover the cost of Twitter verification: Puck. "It's a negligible amount of money for most media companies, even the largest that employ thousands of journalists," Kelly said. Long considered Twitter power users, journalists make up a large contingent of verified users on the platform, along with celebrities, organizations, and brands.

☆ Ex-Idaho gubernatorial candidate found guilty in 1984 murder of Colorado girl
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Keith Coffman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

DENVER, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A former two-time candidate for governor of Idaho was convicted on Monday of the abduction and murder of a 12-year-old Colorado girl who vanished from her home in 1984 after singing at a Christmas recital. Steven Pankey, 71, was found guilty in Weld County District Court for the first-degree murder and kidnapping of Jonelle Matthews, who disappeared from her home in Greeley, Colorado, about 50 miles (80.47 km) north of Denver. The conviction came in Pankey's second trial for the girl’s murder. Pankey unsuccessfully ran for Idaho governor on the Constitution Party ticket in 2014, and lost a second gubernatorial bid in the 2018 Republican primaries. Reporting by Keith Coffman in Denver Editing by Frank McGurty and Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ New York Times pays as much as $300,000 in base salary to top talent. Here's pay data on US jobs in editorial, advertising, and more.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Colin Salao | Steven Perlberg | Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Times' news division has also expanded by hundreds in recent years and now employs about 1,700 journalists. The public data show how much the media company offered to pay foreign staffers it sought to hire in the US for jobs including editorial, data, engineering, and business-side positions. Editorial and some business employees at the Times are unionized, setting salary ranges for some positions at the company. Based on the data, the Times offered from late 2019 through the middle of 2022 annual base salaries ranging from $53,392 to $306,000 for various roles. In cases where the company submitted multiple applications for a particular job, such as a software engineer, we included the range of those wage rates.

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☆ The hotly anticipated media startup Semafor has launched, creating the 'Semaform' article structure to separate news from opinion
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The company has created "Semaform," a way to separate news and opinion in articles. Semafor, the hotly anticipated media startup that grabbed industry attention before it even launched, is finally here. Led by former Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith and former New York Times media columnist and BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith, the outlet began publishing Tuesday morning with the lofty ambition of "solving certain significant news consumer frustrations," Justin Smith told Insider. "We have a long runway through 2023 and moving into 2024 on a revenue front and a cost front," Justin Smith said. Overall, the target readership is "very much the news omnivore" and people who are "opinion leaders" in business, finance, and tech, Justin Smith said.

☆ How Omar Raja turned the 'SportsCenter' Instagram account into a hub for sports-adjacent viral videos
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Omar Raja joined ESPN in 2020 and is the face of the "SportsCenter" Instagram account. ESPN averages more than 400 social posts a day and has focused more on TikTok recently. Raja, 28, honed his craft as a teenager compiling "Call of Duty" clips on YouTube and, more famously, by creating the basketball-focused Instagram account House of Highlights. Raja is the face of the account — the bio reads, "I'm @Omar and this is SportsCenter!" Raja has helped grow the "SportsCenter" presence on Instagram to 32 million followers, from about 15.4 million when he started.

☆ Layoffs hit Recurrent Ventures, the private-equity-backed owner of Popular Science, Saveur, and The Drive
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Layoffs have hit Recurrent Ventures, the private-equity-backed owner of digital media properties including Popular Science and The Drive. The cuts come months after Recurrent Ventures shuttered MEL Magazine, the digital media darling it rescued from closure last year. One current Recurrent staffer told Insider that the staff was "totally surprised" at the fresh round of cuts. "The growth in our expenses has outpaced our revenue growth and we need to recalibrate," Johnson wrote in the memo. Since our inception, we have experienced tremendous audience and revenue growth.

☆ Inside the New York Times' heated union fight, where a potential strike looms and the biggest sticking point is pay
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Will reporters at The New York Times really go on strike? The idea, unthinkable just a few months ago, is now on the lips of New York Times Guild members as the union's contract negotiations with management heat up. New York Times reporters have walked off the job before, like as part of a 1962-1963 citywide newspaper strike. But Robles said union members are upset that the Times' strong business footing has not translated into better pay. (The Times spokesperson countered that the paper was not seeing record profits).

☆ The possibility of a strike looms at The New York Times as its union battles management over wage hikes
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Will reporters at The New York Times really go on strike? The idea, unthinkable just a few months ago, is now on the lips of New York Times Guild members as the union's contract negotiations with management heat up. New York Times reporters have walked off the job before, like as part of a 1962-1963 citywide newspaper strike. The union at Wirecutter, the reviews site owned by the New York Times, walked off the job during the Black Friday shopping period last year, for instance. But Robles said union members are upset that the Times' strong business footing has not translated into better pay.

☆ From Meatspace to Metaverse: Two Books on Virtual Reality
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Steven Poole | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

In the annals of hype about things that don’t yet exist, the metaverse has enjoyed an impressive rocketlike trajectory. Other tech giants, including Microsoft and Nvidia, are also pivoting to the metaverse. In the mid-20th century, “metaverse” was an obscure synonym for metapoetry, or poetry about poetry. Mr. Stephenson’s readers have wanted to go to the metaverse ever since. John Carmack, the lead developer of the first-person-shooter game “Doom,” once said it was a moral imperative to build the metaverse.

☆ Putin has really limited his options, says Stanford research fellow
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailPutin has really limited his options, says Stanford research fellowSteven Pifer of Stanford University says the Russians are "lashing out" at their military defeat by launching more missile attacks against civilian infrastructure in Ukrainian cities.

☆ Un copil de 7 ani din SUA a devenit un adevărat erou după ce şi-a salvat familia de la înec
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-02 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Un copil de 7 ani din Statele Unite a devenit un adevărat erou după ce şi-a salvat familia de la înec. Băieţelul a înotat o oră pentru a cere ajutor pentru tatăl şi sora sa, care au fost luaţi de un curent pe un râu din statul Florida. La un moment dat, fetiţa, care purta vesta de salvare, a fost luată de curent, iar bărbatul a sărit în apă după ea. Am încercat să rămân cu amândoi cât mai mult, dar fetiţa a fost luată de curent şi a trebuit să înot după ea." Băiatul a înotat mai bine de o oră, iar când a ajuns la ţărm, acesta a fugit la cea mai apropiată casă după ajutor.

Persons: Băieţelul, Steven Poust, Chase, Abigail Locations: Statele Unite, Florida, ţărm

☆ Îngrijorător: Cercetătorii estimează că în realitate cazurile de COVID-19 ar putea fi de șase ori mai multe
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-23 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Acest lucru permite oamenilor de știință să evite utilizarea datelor epidemiologice și serologice, care vin cu limitările testării. Comparând noile estimări cu cazurile oficiale confirmate, echipa a reușit să prezică rata de infecție „adevărată” pentru fiecare țară. Conform rezultatelor acestora, la sfârșitul lunii august, rata infecției populației a fost, în medie, de șase ori mai mare decât cazurile raportate, scrie descopera.ro. În general, din martie, țările din întreaga lume și-au îmbunătățit capacitățile de testare COVID-19, educând publicul cu privire la simptome și oferind modalități din ce în ce mai precise de detectare și urmărire a infecției. Chiar și în Australia, care are unul dintre cele mai bune niveluri de detectare dintre toate cele 15 țări studiate, cercetătorii spun că rata infecției ar putea fi în continuare de aproape cinci ori mai mare decât cele raportate.

Persons: Steven Phipps Organizations: Ikigai Locations: Australia, Ikigai Research

That doesn’t mean you’re doomed to wake up in a daze because you’re prone to mouth breathing when you sleep. “Even if you don’t have sleep apnea, or you have mild sleep apnea, opening your mouth makes it much, much worse.”How do you know if you’re mouth breathing at night? How to stop mouth breathingWhen Nestor blocked his nose for science, he experienced an extreme version of mouth breathing. If you’re tackling your nighttime mouth breathing, Park suggested you start by taking care of your nose to minimize congestion. But even if you get your nose to clear, nighttime mouth breathing can be a hard habit to break.

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