Chinese PR boss says sorry after glorifying work-till-you-drop culture | Technology sector
The head of public relations for China’s biggest search engine Baidu has apologized after causing a PR crisis for himself with a series of videos glorifying the country’s “work to death” culture. Qu Jing, who is also the company’s vice president, said in her most popular short video, Douyin, that she is responsible for the […]
‘Labour will surpass your expectations’: the leftwing thinktank boss standing on Starmer’s agenda | Economics
MIatta Fernbulle has been talking about economic transformation for as long as she can remember. After she and her family fled Liberia’s civil war as a child, politics and economics were the main topics of conversation at London breakfast tables. “When other people are talking about it, eastenderswe were trying to change the economic settlement,” […]
ABC News boss Kim Godwin ‘badmouthing’ new boss was ‘last straw’: sources
ABC News president Kim Godwin resigned under pressure after she was found to have “bad-mouthed” her new boss, a move that echoed bad decisions including last week’s botched firing of weather forecaster Rob Marciano. It was the “final coup de grace” for the “collective body” of the United States, the Post reported. Godwin, the first […]
Hims & Hers boss Andrew Dudum is a morally bankrupt Dud by name — and by nature
I’m kicking myself. Last Thursday, you could have made a fortune by shorting shares in the hot sexual health care company Hims & Hers. All I had to do was call my broker at 7:22am, one minute after the company’s CEO committed social media commercial suicide. This is Wall Street’s only certainty, short of Bud […]
California school boss fired over ‘clapping’ scandal
A California school district fired its superintendent this week. It’s been almost a year since students claimed he would be barred from attending her graduation ceremony for not clapping loudly for his daughter at a sports banquet. The Board of Trustees, which oversees the 35,000-student Poway Unified School District in San Diego, voted unanimously Tuesday […]
ABC News boss Kim Godwin feeling heat from review by Disney exec
Embattled ABC News president Kim Godwin is reportedly facing intense scrutiny from Disney’s corporate overlords, who are demanding the chief executive overhaul her management responsibilities. He has ordered a review. Debra O’Connell, who was promoted to a leadership role putting ABC News under her control in February, accused Godwin of mismanagement of money-making divisions that […]
Boss of Peloton rival taunts bike maker, says he could do better job than outgoing CEO Barry McCarthy
The president of Peloton’s rival company has thrown his hat into the ring to lead the struggling exercise bike maker after the current president resigned on Thursday. Lu Renting, who founded and heads privately held Echelon, could do a better job saving Peloton than retiring CEO Barry McCarthy, a former Netflix and Spotify executive who […]
Former Nickelodeon Boss Dan Schneider Files Defamation Suit Against ‘Quiet on Set’ Producers: ‘Hit Job’
Dan Schneider, former Nickelodeon producer and main subject of explosive documentary series Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TVfiled a lawsuit for defamation, calling the series a “hit job.” Although the documentary series did not accuse Dan Schneider of being a child sexual predator, the series did include interviews from former employees who […]
House COVID-19 committee wants Wuhan lab-linked EcoHealth Alliance boss criminally investigated, barred from receiving grants
The Special Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic terrible report On Wednesday, along with permanently cutting off taxpayer funding to the EcoHealth Alliance, the group’s president, Peter Daszak, a British zoologist who rejects the lab leak theory, was also cut off from federal funding and facing criminal charges. It was recommended that an investigation be carried […]
NATO Boss Chides Members For Not Sending Weapons to Ukraine Faster
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – NATO countries have failed to fulfill their promises to Ukraine on time, giving Russia the upper hand while Kiev’s depleted forces await the arrival of military supplies from the United States. This is now possible, the head of the alliance said on Monday. And Europe. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said at […]