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Hamilton Nolan · 02/06/15 11:00AMHere Is the VICE Style Guide
Hamilton Nolan · 09/25/14 01:20PMWalmart Workers Rant About the "Nonsense" New Dress Code
Hamilton Nolan · 09/02/14 02:00PMHere's How Conde Nast and Mo Rocca Are Making Propaganda for Monsanto
Hamilton Nolan · 08/05/14 03:50PMThe New New York Times Magazine Editor Is... Ask Us Next Year
Hamilton Nolan · 12/19/13 11:52AMMall Memo: Black Friday Starts at 8 PM on Thanksgiving, Runs 26 Hours
Hamilton Nolan · 10/24/13 09:10AM30 More Buyouts Coming to the New York Times
Hamilton Nolan · 12/03/12 09:26AMThe New York Times, like the rest of the newspaper industry, went through a painful series of buyouts after the 2008 financial collapse exacerbated the already ongoing collapse of the newspaper industry. In 2009, they cut 100 positions. In 2011, they had 20 more buyouts. This morning, they announced they want 30 more.
Let's Watch Some Fun Target Training Videos
Hamilton Nolan · 10/02/12 10:45AMHere's the Script Target Is Using to Train Its Employees to Be 'AMAZING'
Hamilton Nolan · 10/01/12 10:00AMDevil-tinted big box retailer Target has one great competitor that keeps its executives awake at night. No, not Wal-Mart—Amazon. It's Amazon that is poised to become the amorphous online "big box" of the future, leaving today's big, concrete boxes in a perilous position. But Target has a plan to save itself: it will give all of its customers an AMAZING shopping experience.
Hey Emily Gould, This Reality Show Wants to Cast You
Maureen O'Connor · 03/27/12 12:54PMWashington Post Event Has #Hashtag Name Just to Be #Cool
Hamilton Nolan · 03/13/12 02:19PMPut on your thinking caps, go into active listening mode, and stretch out your inside voices, Washington Post employees: it's time for a good old-fashioned in-house daylong corporate brainstorming session. No idea is too wacky to win the $1,000 prize! Looking at you, Hipness Desk. So remember to RSVP for this big event, #PostDisrupt. Is it on Twitter? No, there's just a hash tag in the name. For reasons of #Disrupt #Journalism #Hipness #BobWoodwardIsDoneAndWeNeedSomethingBig. The full email is below.
Young Sulzberger Is Coming Home to the Big City
Hamilton Nolan · 03/06/12 03:28PMA.G. "Baller of a New Generation" Sulzberger—son of NYT publisher Pinch Sulzberger, heir to the throne of the Times empire, and natural wisenheimer—has completed his exile in Middle America, where he helmed the Kansas City desk and was forced to endure prolonged periods of subpar vegetarian cooking. He's coming home... TO RULE. To work on the Metro Desk, we mean. Don't fool yourselves; he'll be ruling soon enough.
'Audible Gasp' in New York Times Newsroom: CEO Janet Robinson Is Out
Hamilton Nolan · 12/15/11 05:25PMThe AP Must Beat Blogs, Demands AP Memo Leaked to Blog
Hamilton Nolan · 12/13/11 03:00PMNew York Times Asks For More Newsroom Buyouts
Hamilton Nolan · 10/13/11 10:33AMWho Broke the Speaking Rules at the New York Times?
Hamilton Nolan · 10/11/11 08:54AMNew York Times ethics cop Phil Corbett just sent out the following memo to the newsroom, reminding them about the paper's rules for paid speaking engagements. (Thomas Friedman, among others, has had trouble with this in the past.) An NYT source says "they don't send these reminders out unless someone breaks the rules or screws up." So who was it? Email me if you know.