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...Plans to fuse TV, radio and online newsrooms and cut up to 490 jobs "should have been done earlier," says Byford. "We're a multimedia broadcaster increasingly organizing around a multimedia platform." But whether or not these cuts deliver the benefits he envisages, the spectacle of the BBC targeting core services and preserving frothier output fuels concerns that it has lost its reason for being. Richard North, author of the 2007 book Scrap the BBC!, calls the broadcaster a "grotesque monopoly" and advocates its privatization. "Broadcasting now needs no more control or support than the print media," he says...
Informality, disputation and disrespect for authority are core Danish traits. But there are limits, and Danes seem to know in their bones just how far they can push them. The result is an economy that looks like something out of an enlightened management textbook. There are a few clear goals and lots of leeway to achieve them. In one fascinating study, two American sociologists found that Danish line workers have nearly as much job autonomy as supervisors do in the U.S., while supervisors in Denmark have about as much autonomy as upper managers...
...them down, and on the morning of Nov. 5 writers at NBC studios in New York walked out. The first WGA strike in nearly 20 years is underway in New York and Los Angeles, and Harvard alumni are playing an integral role on both sides of the picket line.The core issue of the WGA strike is the AMPTP’s attempt to apply the current formula for residuals—payments made to writers each time a show is rebroadcast or sold after its initial showing—to new media. This issue of residuals dates back...
...Nathaniel Hill, 24, injured himself falling from one of the trees while trying to climb down to meet his father. At Columbia University, hunger strikers met with university officials Monday, but failed to see any real changes after a week of protest. The protesters want Columbia to diversify its Core Curriculum and improve ethnic studies and multicultural resources, according to a report by the Columbia Spectator. Finally, starting today, students at UMass-Amherst plan to stage a two-day strike to push for decreased student fees and a relaxation of aggressive police patrols of dormitories. The university?...
...Roof” is closing this Saturday at the Loeb Ex. Admission is free and you can use the money you save on tickets to buy some cheap whiskey after the show. 8:30 pm. Saturday, Nov. 17. Loeb Ex. Free. 5) Does this count as a (Foreign) Cultures Core? There’s a wine-tasting class on Sunday at the Cambridge Queenshead Pub. Learn what all the sophisticates are talking about when they swirl their glasses and inhale. Learn from Michael Meagher of the restaurant L’Espalier, one of Boston’s finest. Sunday evening...