Martin Wolf’s hair is on fire in the Financial Times: Suppose that in June 2007 you had been told that the UK 10-year bond would be yielding 1.54 per cent, the US Treasury 10-year 1.47 per cent and the German 10-year 1.17 per cent on June 1 2012. Suppose, too, you had been told that
GOOD Mag to be ‘a Reddit for social good’ (updated)
GOOD magazine fired six of its nine-person editorial staff on Friday—and two others accepted buyouts—as part of a move from being a journalism-focused outlet to a community engagement platform. “They said they wanted to be a Reddit for social good,” says Megan Greenwell, the former managing editor at GOOD. Staff members from GOOD magazine told
David Cay Johnston’s excellent corporate-welfare column
Reuters’s David Cay Johnston has a great column on corporate welfare that mixes reporting and analysis to show why subsidies for development are so problematic. Johnston looks at a proposal by mall heir Scott Congel to get New York taxpayers to subsidize the redevelopment of the Medley Centre mall outside Rochester. That dead mall has
How David Simon is wrong about paywalls
David Simon is a talented writer and storyteller, but is he qualified to give advice to publishers about how to save their dying industry? As qualified as anybody else, I suppose. But when he suggested in a recent piece for CJR that people like me who disagree with his position on paid content were unqualified,
Missing: Voters’ voices in Rep. McCotter story
MICHIGAN — Michigan political journalists have a big story on their hands: U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter, a five-term incumbent who made a brief run for the Republican presidential nomination last fall, abruptly dropped out of his re-election race over the weekend. On May 26, McCotter announced that the state elections bureau had determined he did
