Newspaper meetings, staff meetings, some other meeting. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, breathing.
I read a lot. I wrote some. I wrote a lecture. I created a work schedule and wrote emails. I tweaked a PowerPoint. I got rained on. It is remarkable how easy it is to slip back into the routine.
It is a nice routine.
The only thing unusual about it all was that the heat in my office worked. As far as I know that hasn’t been the case in the four years it has been my office. Of course it was 70 degrees outside today.
Everything else was just lovely. They were offering banana pudding in the cafeteria, after all.
I’m trying to settle on the Very Short List Of Desserts I’ll Allow Myself If They Are Available. Banana Pudding will be on this list.
Things to read: Entrepreneurial journalism? Credible voices? Two great topics for me.
The rise of the entrepreneurial journalist in a world seeking credible voices:
Breaking news without context and perspective is a commodity today. George gets that and has the experience and judgment to succeed on a platform like ours. We do our best to make sure that all of our contributors are right for the role. They’re all picked, vetted and on-boarded by FORBES editors who have worked here for years, often a decade or more. We prominently place a writer’s bio on each of their posts so readers can judge their credentials. Transparency sits at the core of everything we do. Not all our contributors work out. Some discover it’s not for them. Some never meet our standards and we part ways. We’re always learning how best to evaluate potential contributors, what the audience wants and what’s right for our brand. It’s part art and science.
We have a disruptive model for journalism. Last week, I wrote about the new wave of journalist on our full-time staff. Many work directly with our extensive curated contributor network. Our platform, tools and product features power a world of entrepreneurial journalism at a time when so many media companies are still shrinking. Our goal remains the same as it was the day we first embarked on our new journey: to build a sustainable model for journalism by respecting the values and standards of our heritage and embracing the dynamism of a digital era.
TV records uptick in dual-screen viewing:
Not only will there more second screens in consumers’ living rooms — but there could be more big second screens.
Deloitte, the consulting firm, estimates this year that 10% of homes in developed countries will have a “dual video screen” — that is two or more screens showing TV programs at the same time in the same room.
While near-term this dual video screening will continue to be dominated by combinations of TV sets and smaller screens — laptops/tablets — larger video second screens will take hold in future years.
This two screen business is all transitional, just so you know.
Great story about a great type of paper, may it publish forever, Pacific Palisades newspaper junkie buys his own paper:
Smolinisky, 33, is a newspaper junkie. He abides by Munger’s philosophy that high achievers in the financial world tend to be voracious readers.
“I love knowing everything going on everywhere in the world,” said Smolinisky, a real estate entrepreneur who keeps a peacock blue Bentley and a red Ferrari in his garage. Late last year, he satisfied a decade-long dream, paying seven figures for the Palisadian-Post. The weekly has chronicled life in Pacific Palisades since 1928 and has been losing money. Smolinisky aims to turn it around.
“Pacific Palisades is my favorite place on Earth, and the Palisadian-Post is my favorite newspaper,” he said. “I have a moral obligation to make sure this newspaper arrives every Thursday for as long as I live.”
As of now you can check out North Korea via Google Maps. I have a sneaking suspicion that that is really what the northern peninsula is actually angry about. Anyway, read about how it all came to pass, here.
