The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
July 16th, 2010
The Wall Street Journal is good with the facts, but it’s easy to find the bias in its reporting. Only through the filter of the Western world’s most widely circulated financial newspaper do you have to parse a headline that states: Economists Express More Optimism …when the summary text states: “Economists surveyed by The Wall…
January 17th, 2010
I cheerfully admit to being a short-term economic pessimist, and a long term optimist. But I have been appalled recently to read the all-too-numerous accounts that happy days are (for sure, probably, or at least nearly) here again. My question is: What if they’re not? I believe that there is a tremendous amount of data…
November 19th, 2009
The Schumpeter column in the current issue of The Economist examines the question of whether CEOs serve their firms better when they are high-profile egoists like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, or low-profile “anonymous managers,” such as Sam Palmisano at IBM. It mentions Haruku Nishimatsu, the boss of Japan Airlines, “who travels to work on…
November 12th, 2009
Dr. Joe Webb is one of the long-time leading economists focused on the printing industry. In his column today on WhatTheyThink? (membership may be required) he looks at the employment drop in the printing industry, but offers a charts the reveals comparisons to other publishing sectors. Only newspapers and direct mail advertising are dropping staff faster…
November 11th, 2009
As reported in the Wall Street Journal Adobe Systems has just repeated what one prays does not continue as an annual event, the pre-holiday season layoffs. Last year it was 600, or 8% of the workforce; this year 680, or 9% of the workforce. This layoff is in addition to the some 100 laid off…