Francine McKenna has been blogging since late 2006 when she started her site, re: The Auditors, where she tracks the big four firms, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG. McKenna worked in the auditing industry for more than 25 years and was employed at two of the four firms in her career. [...]
Oliver Suess, Carolyn Bandel and Kevin Crowley of Bloomberg give us another example of people willing to bet on almost anything. This time they’re focusing on people’s deaths.
With key jobs reports being released this week, including Friday’s Employment Situation data which sets the national unemployment rate, you can’t go wrong with another hiring or careers story. One fresh approach might be to take a look at employers whose main challenge is battling turnover and keeping jobs filled. Last week I interviewed the [...]
Got a little time this weekend? It’s worth checking out a partnership between Wired Magazine and Planet Money. The Economic Rebound: It Isn’t What You Think Unemployment is still at 9 percent, leaving more than 12 million Americans without work. But there are bright spots in the U.S. economy. Planet Money and Wired Magazine have [...]
Wondering how to find sources on these social media sites: LinkedIn, Twitter and Quora? That was a common question that came up during a Webinar we offered May 17-18 called, “Beyond Google: Mining the Web for Company Intelligence.”
So, we asked the instructor for that Webinar, Sean Campbell, to do a five-minute demonstration video.
I covered bankruptcy court for about three years, and I’ve never heard of a legal case that lasted 21 years. But that’s how long the case of the Lehigh & Northampton Airport Authority vs. developer WBF Inc. has been going on — a fact that encouraged Morning Call reporters Matt Assad and Tim Darragh to take a deeper look.
Last week when Cronkite students visited The Wall Street Journal Asia office, the hot topic of conversation was the foreign media’s restriction on hiring Chinese journalists. But today, when we visited Bloomberg’s Shanghai office, a different theme was on the forefront of the agenda: Companies neglecting foreign media outlets in China. Stephanie Wong, bureau chief [...]
We’ve now been in Shanghai for over three days and it seems that here, more than in Beijing, the complexities that have arisen with the emergence of online media are a focus for news organizations and students. On Monday, we visited Shanghai International Studies University, where the students discussed the disadvantages and advantages of China’s [...]
With each day that passes, the Chinese way of life heightens my interest in the country and the way it functions. And my perspective is limited considering myself and my peers have only seen two of the country’s largest cities — Shanghai and Beijing. That’s a small fraction of the massive country and yet, the information [...]
