A little actuarial humor for you

Ah, the life of a business/economics/financial reporter. It pretty much is all fun and games. Witness what happened when I stopped by the 60th annual conference of the CFA Institute (the trade group for financial analysts) at the Hilton just up the street this morning to catch a panel discussion on “Envisioning the Future of [...]

A rousing defense of Citizen Murdoch

A friend with a history in the British newspaper business writes: I’m fascinated by some of the comments on Murdoch in the papers and from the WSJ newsroom — right-wing ideologue, terrible for papers etc etc. He’s a newspaper man! He’s got ink under his fingernails! Ask any of his editors: he loves papers. That [...]