Chief Executive Dennis J. FitzSimons is trying to cash the fattest employee check before the end of the year for himself. He wants to be compensated $40 million to NOT run the company any longer.
‘Tribune Millionaries’ used to be more common. Back in the days when I worked for that company - I used to participate in every employee program I could to get my hands on the issue. It was always on the rise, splitting every few years and so I would buy the stock at the employee discount, waited patiently to be ‘vested’ (which required five years of service) in the ESOP and banked most of my meager 401(k) contributions in that good old TRB. Who didn’t? We all figured it was our little piggy bank - our reward for other sacrifices we made to practice our craft in the building with the flying buttresses.
I was driving to the gym yesterday and out of the corner of my eye I notice the oil change reminder sticker Jiffy Lube put on my windscreen in February. They wrote down the mileage at 67,949 and I quickly looked down at the odometer and read 70,476 on my ‘99 VW Passat. Is this true? I have driven less than 3,000 miles this year?
Back in October I turned the corner into year three as a self-employed journalist and business owner and I have to say getting to ‘the office’ and traveling to meet colleagues, clients and students has seen dramatic shifts in my commuting habits.
Truth is, I don’t really have time to blog today but I am squeezing this in because there are a number of web debates now circling around my co.mments feed.
Among the topics: Citizen Journalism (or do we mean ‘Networked Journalism’ or ‘Participatory Journalism’ now?), Wikipedia’s secret mailing lists, Web stupid newspaper editors, and even more layoffs of professional journalists.
Questions from students of journalism
I am online to reply to questions posed to me from a Medill student journalist that I taught last week. Alex wants to know why Wikipedia ranks so high in search engines and why people use it even though it is prone to be easily manipulated by those who want it to serve their own interests.
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