Top Editors Abruptly Leave Village Voice Will Bourne, who became editor in chief of The Village Voice in November, and Jessica Lustig, the deputy editor since January, are leaving the weekly publication. They met with the staff at 11 a.m. on Thursday and said that Christine Brennan, executive editor of Voice Media Group, had instructed them to lay off or drastically reduce the roles of five employees on the 20-person staff. More
Sears Didn't Move Fast Enough, CEO Says Sears continues to struggle to get a "decent" return on its assets and the retailer didn't move fast enough to cut expenses after the financial crisis, the CEO said at the annual meeting. More
Judge denies $20M severance deal for AMR CEO A federal bankruptcy judge has at least temporarily blocked a proposed $20 million severance payment for the CEO of American Airlines as part of the company's merger with US Airways. The judge ruled Thursday that the proposed payment to CEO Tom Horton exceeded limits that Congress set for bankruptcy cases in 2005. More
Hayward’s veteran city manager is leaving for chief administrator position in Santa Barbara Kelly McAdoo, Hayward’s city manager and chief executive officer for eight years, is leaving to become the chief administrator of Santa Barbara. McAdoo, who has spent a total of 13 years with the city ... 05/4/2024 - 3:00 pm | View Link
Two female execs leave UK energy giant BP in wake of ex-CEO Bernard Looney scandal Two top women executives at BP are leaving the company — the first major change to the firm’s management structure since last year’s departure of CEO Bernard Looney, who abruptly quit after ... 04/18/2024 - 5:46 am | View Link
From using the ‘Open To Work’ badge, to updating your ‘About’ section, here’s how to make your profile stand out on LinkedIn.
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The indie film powerhouse commissioned original songs from more than a dozen artists for the new movie.
Every generation has its iconic movie soundtrack. The curated collections of songs that accompanied films like The Breakfast Club, Reality Bites, and Garden State took on cultural lives of their own, thanks to their ability to distill each movie’s ethos into the best kind of mixed tape.
Of the potential mechanisms for tackling plastic pollution, a cap on plastic production was the most hotly debated, but one has not made it into the draft text of the treaty—not yet, at least.
An international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea.
Premier Lacrosse League’s Paul Rabil tells ‘Fast Company’ how his success as an athlete-entrepreneur was fueled by social media.
With Paul Rabil, it’s tough to tell which came first, the athlete or the entrepreneur.
Without action, plastic production could triple by 2060.
Thirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets, and seaweeds along rocky shores, I started noticing a daily tide of litter, mostly plastic. As a marine biology PhD student at Liverpool University, I kept removing it, but the next day, there’d be more.
Cyberattacks arouse severe psychological distress—akin even to the harm generated by physical terrorism, causing people to feel trapped and anxious.
The news about the Israel-Hamas war is filled with reports of Israeli families huddling in fear from relentless rocket attacks, Israeli tanks, and artillery flattening buildings in the Gaza Strip, hundreds of kidnapped hostages imprisoned in subterranean tunnels, and millions of people driven from their homes by fighting.