Hints and tips:
...Another of Thompson’s predecessors, Jeff Zucker, drove a more opinion-heavy CNN through the Trump news boom, making for spectacular ratings and profits for the broadcaster....
...Jeff Zucker has asked to meet at Come Prima, a smart Italian restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and it is so empty that I initially wonder if it is closed for the day....
...To begin with, Luke Thompson looks as if he’s going to make a mess of witty Berowne with his slouching, hand-flapping and gurning, until love transforms the character into a more thoughtful fellow....
...CNN has been in a state of flux since the abrupt departure of longtime and revered leader Jeff Zucker in February last year, which rattled staff....
...Thompson’s talks with CNN were first reported by Semafor....
...Its popular chief executive, Jeff Zucker, resigned in 2022 after a relationship with a colleague became public....
...VMLY&R to create the world’s largest creative advertising company in October last year....
...Judging by the lack of gawps from fellow diners, who appear to be older locals, Thompson’s summary seems acute....
...Veteran British media executive Sir Will Lewis has been named as the new publisher and chief executive of The Washington Post, as the newspaper group owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos looks to revive its...
...The balance has shifted too far towards the private; while US business investment in R&D more than tripled between 1990 and 2020, federal public R&D spending was almost flat....
...It follows a period in which the firm built up a significant business auditing Chinese real estate groups: PwC has also acted for others that have struggled, such as Country Garden, Sunac, R&F Properties...
...The resignation of CNN’s longtime leader Jeff Zucker after he failed to disclose a relationship with a colleague shook the network’s ranks last February....
...The slowdown in tech companies’ ad spending mainly affected WPP’s integrated creative agencies, such as VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, which reported a 2.3 per cent decline in the second quarter....
...The company has had three different owners in the past six years and suffered the abrupt exit of longtime leader Jeff Zucker, who had built CNN into a ratings machine during the Trump era....
...Ispace sold itself to investors as a dynamic private-sector operator in the mould of Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin by talking of business opportunities on the Moon....
...So it turns out that for the same price as one of their Gulfstream private jets, space barons Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos could have sent a lander to the moon....
...He tells me the UK government’s R&D budget is approaching £20bn a year, and that private-sector R&D now exceeds public money roughly threefold....
...Icahn wants to appoint three new directors to the board and remove Illumina chief executive Francis deSouza and chair John Thompson....
...Vuitton has often looked outside the box of fashion for its collaborators — Kusama has created two collections, Jeff Koons one and Takashi Murakami several between 2003 and 2008....
...“The tax business has historically been a paper business,” Jeff Jones, chief executive of H&R Block, told me recently....
...mildewed mystics in ancient Britain), Netflix’s The Witcher (monsters vs Henry Cavill) and Amazon’s The Wheel of Time (Rosamund Pike in a wig), the last of which was reportedly commissioned at the behest of Jeff...
...There’s a strong focus on contemporary American music, too, represented by the premiere of Jeff Midkiff’s mandolin concerto From the Blue Ridge, orchestral work by Wynton Marsalis, a new commission from...
...Emanuel picked up another aptly named work, “Stairway to the Stars” (c1962), from a solo booth of the late African-American painter Bob Thompson at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery....
...Jamie SmythThey got more than 2 billion of investment from the likes of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, the Chinese company Tencent. So these were really high profile investors....
...The point, instead, is to go from being Robert Armstrong, journalist, to R.K. Armstrong, author of The Fall of the House of Lucre: A Tale of Greed, Sex and Accounts Receivable....
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