Living a Valuable Life
“Writing…is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom …
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Hoop Roots: What Basketball Can Teach Us About Leadership
John Edgar Wideman’s Hoop Roots is a moving memoir about a man who has to come to terms with his own mortality. After playing basketball all his life – through …
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Work-Life Balance Is An Elusive Idea
At the core of the issue of a healthy work-life balance lies the question of what constitutes a valuable life. Is it the life dedicated towards an endeavor, a goal …
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Technological Disruption Does Not Have To Disrupt Journalism
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the arrival of the Internet has disrupted the media business, and in turn journalism as a whole. So first the business model went. Newspapers, …
Read MoreMichael Mann’s The Insider and What It Teaches Us About Leadership
Michael Mann’s 1999 film The Insider is, ostensibly, about journalism. But in truth it is a story about human beings, caught in extraordinary circumstances and how that comes to reveal their true …
Read MoreA new dawn for the press in Iran?
Free press advocates in Iran got a boost after the election of a new president in 2013, the reformist-minded Hassan Rouhani. Following his inauguration, Rouhani has suggested that his administration …
Read MoreSelma, Ava DuVernay and the power of art to chronicle history
Should historical fiction be judged against the facts of history? This question came to the fore after the recent release of “Selma,” a film chronicling the Reverend Martin Luther King, …
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The Ferguson Case In The Media: U.S.A, Romania and Tanzania
What came first: The chicken or the egg? We were reminded of this old philosophical conundrum as we pondered on the question of how the situation in Ferguson was covered …
Read MoreWhat Jazz Has Taught Me About Leadership
Music, jazz in particular, provides an emotional anchor through which I engage the world. On any given day, at some point, I will listen to Miles Davis. The record I repeatedly go …
Read MoreWhy Rupert Murdoch Loves Newspapers
THE MAN WHO OWNS THE NEWS: INSIDE THE SECRET WORLD OF RUPERT MURDOCH By Michael Wolff 456 pages. Vintage Books. $15.70 Rupert Murdoch loves newspapers Yes, he presides over a …
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