Oct 21 2010

What Spitzer Could Learn from Boesky

Our colleagues Sewell Chan and Nicholas Confessore have a scoop that the Harvard Club rejected Eliot L. Spitzer’s membership application. When DealBook heard this news, we immediately thought of Ivan Boesky. Ivan Boesky? The infamous arbitrageur jailed for insider trading more than two decades ago? Well, yes. The Harvard Club plays a starring role in [...]


Sep 26 2010

‘Why I Became a Republican’: GOP Women Learn Tips on Minority Outreach

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Linda Jones knows the GOP has a problem, and she wants to do something about it. As president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Republican Women, she would like her group of 200 to have more African American members; she said she doesn’t think it has any right now. So, in the name of minority [...]


Jul 10 2010

ScienceBlogs, CNN Learn New-Media Ethics at School of Hard Knocks

That you are reading this means you have some interest in how the new media operate. The ethics of online news operations are still being developed on the fly, shifting a bit as each new tech development kicks in. In the past couple of days, a couple of spectacular failed “experiments” have been playing out [...]