Word: ceo
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...Jackson's reign could continue for years with fresh material that has never been released and artistic reworkings of existing classic tracks, according to Tommy Mottola, former CEO and chairman of Sony, the company that owns the distribution rights to much of Jackson's music. "The world will be listening to Michael Jackson for decades to come," Mottola tells TIME. (See the last photos of Michael Jackson...
...just reported a 3% increase in June. Audi is another carmaker showing signs of gaining share in a difficult market. While its sales are down slightly, Audi now holds more than 9% of the U.S. luxury market, its largest share in years. (Watch an interview with Ford CEO Alan Mulally...
...competitors, things are deeply grim for newspapers. Which only made the Washington Post's new revenue-generating idea even more mystifying. The wording on an invitation it sent out, as first reported on Politico, offers business executives "an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the home of CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth." That is, if the invitees pony up between $25,000 (to sponsor one dinner) and $250,000 (to sponsor 11 dinners - buy 10, get one free...
Weymouth's decor and catering are perfectly acceptable, we hear, but what really made the evening worth the coin is the guest list. Joining the CEO at the intime gathering of 20, according to the flier, would be "Obama administration officials, Congress members, business leaders, advocacy leaders and other select minds," plus "health-care reporting and editorial staff members of The Washington Post." In other words, for a fee, businesses and lobbyists could have access to the sort of high-level opinion makers that the Post has access to as well as the journalists, all in a cozy...
That, we guess, would have been the job of Weymouth, 42, who is the granddaughter of Post's longtime publisher, Katharine Graham, and has only been the Washington Post's CEO since February of last year. Unlike her uncle Donald Graham, current chairman of the Washington Post Co., and the man she is expected to succeed, Weymouth, 42, never worked as a journalist, joining the family company in 1996 as a lawyer...