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May 18, 2016 Cait Etherington
You’ve already heard the news–Facebook is on the hot seat for admitting that its trending news is not simply a reflection of an algorithm but also subject to tampering by its human newsroom editors. Worse yet, the allegations suggest that Facebook’s human newsroom editors have been intentionally suppressing right-wing news stories about Paul Rand, Donald […]
read moreMay 17, 2016 Cait Etherington
As diversity questions continue to dominate the high-tech sector, Twitter has appointed a new board member to help change its profile. On Monday, Debra Lee, chairman and chief executive of BET Networks, announced that she was joining the board. The 61 year old is a well-known African American media business figure who has overseen the […]
read moreMay 16, 2016 Cait Etherington
Deloitte’s recently released study found that in 2016, the top priority for talent managers is organization design. As the study reports: After three years of struggling to drive employee engagement and retention, improve leadership, and build a meaningful culture, executives see a need to redesign the organization itself, with 92 percent of survey participants rating […]
read moreMay 8, 2016 Cait Etherington
From the Texas oil fields to the Alberta tar sands, the oil industry in North America is currently in crisis, leaving many workers unemployed, including many young workers with little education and no experience working outside the energy sector. This week, in the midst of the oil industry’s already devastating downfall, one impacted community faced […]
read moreMay 5, 2016 Cait Etherington
Over the past twenty-four months, the Silicon Valley has been coming face-to-face with its diversity problem and so far, the news has mostly been bad. First, there were reports of the staggeringly low number of visible minority workers and women employed at Google, Apple and other major technology companies across the nation. Then, Ellen Pao […]
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