Pickens and ProPublica: Public Spirit or Private Agenda?
An upcoming book written by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green coins the term for the latest wave of do-gooders: philanthrocapitalists. Bishop and Green recognized that donors such as Bill Gates and Bill Clinton are redefining philanthropy, formerly a one-step action of charitable giving, into a business-style model of accountability and results. Appropriately timed for the September book [...]
read moreChanges at the WSJ
When Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal, everyone was sure it would change — they just didn’t know how. Now some of the early results are in. And so far, at least, it’s pretty apparent that under Murdoch, the WSJ is being pushed to be snappier, newsier, less business-oriented and less analytic. You can [...]
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