Word: journals
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...gender gap in starting salaries reflects substantial gender differences in which employment sector is chosen,” according to Goldin and Katz, who have co-authored several journal articles on the topic. “In general, starting salaries are very similar by sex within employment sectors...
Meanwhile, DeLong, by way of the often-incendiary posts on his “semi-daily journal,” has become one of the nation’s most influential academic commentators. He writes widely on the media, politics, and economics, frequently excoriating investment strategist Don Luskin, who DeLong terms the “Stupidest Man Alive.” But the blog is just an extra-curricular activity—DeLong chairs Berkeley’s political economy major while keeping up with his teaching and research, even though he has written that universities should be rewarding blogging...
...Rupert Murdoch and the Bancroft family, coupon-clipping owners of Dow Jones, has gripped the little world of journalists. "The rotten old bastard intends to charm them all with his lies," warned Slate media critic Jack Shafer. The idea that Murdoch might get his mitts on the Wall Street Journal has folks scandalized, as though Larry Flynt were buying the New York City Ballet...
...Murdoch wins Dow Jones, it won't be because he's evil. It will be the result of decades of mismanagement of one of the world's great sources of news and analysis. All the Journal's Pulitzer Prizes can't mask the fact that, while demand for high-quality financial and political news exploded, the value of America's leading business newspaper first sank, then stagnated...
...weeks since Murdoch made his bid for Dow Jones, a number of writers have asserted that the Journal lags precisely because it is so good-that excellence is expensive and high-quality journalism cannot turn a good profit in a competitive era. There are at least two problems with this argument...