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“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 one can neither resist nor …
Living a Valuable Life Read More
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 high school and college, three …
Hoop Roots: What Basketball Can Teach Us About Leadership Read More
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 an ambition and their realization …
Work-Life Balance Is An Elusive Idea Read More
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, which for years had …
Technological Disruption Does Not Have To Disrupt Journalism Read MoreMichael 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 characters. Based on …
Michael Mann’s The Insider and What It Teaches Us About Leadership Read MoreFree 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 will ease the restrictions placed …
A new dawn for the press in Iran? Read MoreShould 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, Jr. and the civil rights …
Selma, Ava DuVernay and the power of art to chronicle history Read More
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 in the U.S., Romanian and …
The Ferguson Case In The Media: U.S.A, Romania and Tanzania Read MoreMusic, 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 back to is …
What Jazz Has Taught Me About Leadership Read MoreTHE 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 multi-billion media empire that includes …
Why Rupert Murdoch Loves Newspapers Read More