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The Last Trace of a Great Newspaper
James Gordon Bennett Sr. founded the New York Herald in 1835 and made it the first modern newspaper. The New York Times' renaming the International Herald Tribune in the fall marks the disappearance of the name of the New York Herald from American journalism after 178 years
Since 2003, the New York Times has been the sole owner of the International Herald Tribune, which was founded in 1887 by James Gordon Bennett Jr., with headquarters in Paris. The Times has announced that it will be renaming the paper as the International New York Times this fall.
While that will mean the loss of a masthead familiar to Americans traveling abroad for more than four generations, it also means the final disappearance of the name of the New York Herald from American journalism after 178 years. That is a pity, for the New York Herald was the greatest newspaper of its day and has a claim to have been the greatest newspaper ever. Its founder, James Gordon Bennett Sr., created modern journalism.
Born in Scotland, Bennett emigrated to the United States in 1819 at the age of 24. Gangly, stoop-shouldered and cross-eyed, Bennett was not a handsome man. He also lacked social graces or any ability whatever to suffer fools. Even simple tact was beyond him.
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James Gordon Bennett Sr. founded the New York Herald in 1835 and made it the first modern newspaper.
Bennett was always a man alone. This made him a great journalist, but he paid a terrible personal price, never knowing real friendship.
Unable to get along with the editor of the New York Enquirer, Bennett suggested he go to Washington and report directly from there. This was a revolutionary idea at the time. Previously, newspapers had reported out-of-town news by simply copying the articles of other newspapers. The editor agreed, happy to be rid of his bumptious but talented employee. Bennett became the first Washington correspondent.
He spent several years working for various papers and slowly conceiving of a new kind of journalism. Newspapers had begun in the 17th century, but they had always been either trade papers, reporting on one sort of news, such as shipping or financial, or they were political, supporting one party or another. The political papers were editorial pages wrapped in a little tendentious news.
WHEN BENNETT FOUNDED THE New York Herald in 1835, with an office in a cellar, a desk consisting of two barrels and a couple of boards, and capital of $500, he had a new idea in mind. Instead of telling readers what he thought they should know, as editors had done in the past, he would tell them what he thought the readers wanted to know: information about the world beyond their immediate ken.
Bennett adapted many ideas first used by other journalists. But he assembled them into a new whole: a politically independent, mass-circulation newspaper full of up-to-the-minute news on all subjects likely to be of interest to his readership. It was, he told his first biographer, "my thought by day, and my dream by night to conduct the Herald and to show the world and posterity that a newspaper can be made the most fascinating, most powerful organ of civilization that genius ever dreamed of."
$14 Billion Hedge Fund Stark Investments Is Liquidating
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – A long, slow fight against a steadily eroding asset base is coming to a close for Stark Investments, which is winding down all of its once-$14.45 billion in hedge funds, Absolute Return reported.
The St. Francis, Wisconsin firm, founded by Harvard Law School classmates Mike Roth and Brian Stark in 1992, is in complete liquidation. Included in the mass unwinding are all the assets of Deephaven Capital Management, which Stark acquired in 2009.
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Brian and Mike worked together at Stark Capital Management, LLC in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut, prior to forming Stark Investments in 1992. In 1993, the team relocated to Wisconsin, where both co-founders had grown up, and began hiring key talent to build out operational and investment infrastructure. By the late 1990s, the Firm had expanded beyond convertibles, applying its investment acumen across a much broader range of instruments, strategies and geographic markets.
In the early 2000s, Stark diversified beyond public debt and equity markets into other asset classes. Today, Stark has evolved into a true multi-asset manager, investing in commodities, real estate, loans, private equity, and intellectual property, in addition to the traditional public equity and debt markets. As we have done throughout our history, Stark continues to search for what we believe are the best risk-controlled investment opportunities in inefficient markets, where investment information and opportunities have been overlooked, misinterpreted or mispriced by other managers.
Best Practices to Grow Your Consulting Business – Tip # 11 – Focus on What Builds the Business
Focus on what builds the business
We are all very busy with many diverse demands on our time. When prioritizing where to spend YOUR time, focus on what builds your business. That might be business development, client account management, training others to do the tasks as you want them to be done, or developing product or productizing your offerings.
I hear the groans as you read, yes, prioritize business development. This is not a natural forte for most of us. Most of us would prefer not to do business development or to have someone else do business development for us. Yet it is your business, and you will be able to tell your story best and understand who your most qualified clients are, and who will gain the most value from your services. Also, business development is one of the critical factors driving growth. Even if you have someone doing business development for you, stay actively involved in the strategy and progress as it directly impacts your business success.
What’s pulling at your time? Where you spending the bulk of your efforts on a daily basis? Have you identified which areas are your core competencies? Which areas contribute to building your business vs managing your business?
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On July 25th at 8pm BST/12pm PST, I’ll be delivering an online workshop entitled ‘Create a killer pitch to land a new job or win work’
Have you ever found yourself standing in front of a potential hiring manager or client at an event desperately trying to untangle your personal sales pitch from the cotton in your mouth?
Articulating yourself well in that first minute of meeting someone is crucial for effective networking, pitching projects and winning contracts. And translating that quick pitch into a written summary profile for LinkedIn or a CV is another important challenge.
Secured Business Loans Are For All… Including Bad Debtors…
Money, Manpower and Materials- these three are the pre requisite criteria for a business. As fuel is necessary to drive a car, same these 3M’s play the leading role for sustaining a business. And, because of that, business loans have become quite popular in lending market. At the same time, it is also true that among the numerous applications, only few are benefited to avail business loans. In that case, the presence of a security can give you extra privilege to avail a business loan. Even more, if you have bad debt, then the existence of security will ensure you to get a business loan without any hassle.
A business loan can be secured when it is offered against a security. As security covers the risk of lending money, thus generally lenders do not take time to provide these loans. One can use both his personal and business property as security. Bad debt secured business loans are offered with a package ranged from £50,000 to £1,000,000. And the repayment period varies in accordance with loan amount. Generally the repayment period is decided anything between 3 to 25 years.
Bad Debt Secured Loan, a customized facility for bad debtors that helps them to fund their business. Here bad debt borrowers mean those credit score is 580 or below it. They could be CCJ’s, IVA’s, defaults, arrears, bankruptcy etc. Since, the existence of security covers the risk of lending money, thus lenders do not hesitate to provide bad debt secured business loans. But obviously, due to bad debt, bad debt secured business loans are available at higher interest rate.
A bad debt borrower can obtain secured business loans either with flexible repayment option or with fixed rate option. Fixed rate loan option indicates that a borrower has to pay a fixed monthly installment every month. On the other hand, with flexible loan option borrowers can pay off the loan amount according to their convenience. In such cases, borrowers can get the facility like overpayment, underpayment, payment holiday etc.
Here, the borrower needs to know that he will have to fill up some documents while applying for a secured business loan. These are like:
• A vivid profile of his business where the nature of his business, annual sales, duration of the business will be described.
• If it is new business, then it is required to present the business plan and how the business would be capable enough to repay the loan amount.
• A loan request also will be attached along with the loan application that will specify what kind of secured business loan is required, the amount and obviously the purpose.
• Submission of other financial statements like tax returns, balance sheet, profit and loss statement is also mandatory.
Bad debt secured business loans work well to gear up a business perfectly. If you are a bad debtor then stop repenting for that and start funding your business with bad debt secured business loans.
Why Your Business Needs Professional Photography
When running a business you have to worry about many different aspects of your business to make it successful. You have to worry about payroll, rent, product development, and following governmental guidelines. However the most important part of your business is actually selling your product to your customers. Without sales your business will fail in a very short period of time.
The hardest part of selling your product is getting the attention of your customer. The world is full of many different stimuli, so somehow you need to make sure that your product stands out and grabs the attention of your prospective customers. The easiest and most efficient way of doing this is to have eye-catching pictures in your advertising and on your web site. To do this you will need to hire a professional photographer to help you decide what pictures are needed and how to take the pictures that you need.
A professional photographer has a lot of experience in setting up and choosing pictures that will give you the exposure that your product needs. Professional photographers go to school to learn their craft, and then after they are part of the workforce, they continue to learn new techniques so they can stay on top of all of the current trends.
You might have a great idea for a picture for your business, but a professional photographer can take your idea and actually bring it to fruition. They will also usually tweak your idea a little bit to try to take advantage of some of the current trends in the advertising world.
If you try to take the pictures yourself, you will quickly see that the quality of your advertising and your web site will turn out very unprofessional looking. Professional photographers have a knack for making their pictures “pop”, so that your prospective customers will be drawn towards your web site and your product, and might actually buy something.