The Pulitzer Prizes at 100

We're celebrating 100 years of journalists, novelists, nonfiction writers, photographers, cartoonists, composers, playwrights, biographers, historians, and poets awarded Pulitzer Prizes. This video is a tribute to them all.

Alisa Miller: How the news distorts our worldview

As the CEO of Public Radio International, Alisa Miller works to bring the most significant news stories to millions — empowering Americans with the knowledge to make choices in an interconnected world.



Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why — though we want to know more about the world than ever — the media is actually showing us less. Eye-opening stats and graphs.

The crystal ball for US equities | Short View

Miles Johnson explains how Japanese equities have served as an early warning sign for sell-offs in US equities over the past 20 years.

Leaders must be honest

"I think leadership is broken around the world," Stanford University President John Hennessy says in response to concerns raised about the global state of affairs. "Partly, it's broken because people don't like to tell the truth when the truth is difficult." In conversation with Stanford's Tina Seelig, Hennessy adds that leaders must clearly communicate what they're willing to do and not do.

The PC Is Dead — Smartphones Are the New Consumer Economy

We all need to purchase goods and services to live life in a modern economy, and how we get those goods and services is changing. As a global economic force, the PC is out and the smartphone is in, says marketing executive Molie Spilman.

Mollie Spilman joined Criteo in 2014 and leads all commercial operations globally. She instrumentally drove Criteo’s growth to a billion dollar business and a steady 90% customer retention rate. Most recently she’s won the IAB Service Excellence Award and is ranked the sixth most powerful woman in mobile advertising by Business Insider. Before Criteo, her two-decade career in advertising included executive roles at Millennial Media, Yahoo, Advertising.com and Time Warner.

If you ever want something, badly, let it go .........

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

Blake Lively

Rousseff impeachment viewed from the favela | FT World Notebook

The huge demonstrations across Brazil and political machinations in Brasília have not made much headway in São Paulo's slums. The FT's Samantha Pearson visits one of the city's largest favelas to find out what residents think.

Fareed Zakaria: The Future Economy Will Be Based on Learning

Fareed Zakaria has been called “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation” (Esquire). He is the Emmy-nominated host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, a contributing editor for The Atlantic, a columnist for The Washington Post, and the bestselling author of The Post-American World and The Future of Freedom. He lives in New York City.

Online Companies Like Facebook Have Created a "Meaningless Economy"

Online businesses were originally measured by how much they sold. Makes sense, right? That's how economics is taught. But today, the largest online companies depend on an "economy of likes" to make money, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. Valuations for companies like Facebook depend largely on their user base, he says, rather than their actual profits. An interesting case in point is Jay-Z's partnership with Samsung.

When the technology company gave away one million copies of the rapper's album Magna Carta Holy Grail on users' phones, paying Jay-Z $5 million, they weren't really purchasing his music — they were purchasing this fan base (and installing spyware on their phones via the album download). The attraction of this business model to investors is that the ability to measure consumer behavior directly, via spyware or "likes," is meant to replace traditional modes of advertising. But when everyone is an advertising company, asks Rushkoff, what happens to the real economy?

Indeed companies who are extracting huge profits from society without giving us something tangible in return, like razorblades or bananas, are harming the real economy. Business should benefit society directly, not indirectly, as when billionaires donate their absurd wealth to our schools. That's a robber baron society. We just want a society.

Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media

In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age.

The End of the Chinese Miracle

Failing in Business Isn't Even Failing — It's Gaining Life Experience (Always seems impossible till it happens, Nelson Mandela)

Taking risks in business means that sometimes you will fail, says AOL cofounder Steve Case. Experimentation is the essence of progress, whether it's in the sciences or in business, and most major social achievements are a result of a big ideas realized through countless small experiments. In America's quest to land a man on the moon, for example, committing small mistakes along the way was the only path toward success.

Case gives another example: Babe Ruth. Yes, the Great Bambino is remembered for being the home run king, but he was also the strikeout king. "If you're swinging for the fences," says Case, "you’re going to strike out. But you have to keep at it and if you keep at it you sometimes will have those homeruns. Sometimes you’ll win those games." Thus failing in business isn't really failing at all, but rather gaining life experience, so you'll do better the next time around.

In this video clip, Case discusses some of the roadblocks he encountered as co-founder of AOL, which at one point brought the Internet to half of all Americans going online. Case's book is The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future.

Self-Affirmation Doesn't Mean Talking Yourself up in a Mirror

Self-affirmation techniques are the butt of many jokes, including a famous Saturday Night Live sketch with Al Franken. But value affirmation is something different, says Harvard's Amy Cuddy. The last thing you want to do if you're looking for more self-assurance and confidence is lie to yourself (the conceit of Franken's sketch). Instead, says Cuddy, focus on your personal values: what they are, what makes them immutable, and why they're important to you.

As a follow up exercise, Cuddy suggests writing about a time when you express these values. The endpoint of self-affirmation through your values is an increase in power — not power over other people, but internal power that represents a form of self-mastery. Not only is this an effective way to make individuals more confident and more effective, it makes people more interesting in general.

Bilingual and Monolingual Baby Brains Differ in Response to Language

Before they can even speak, the brains of bilingual babies show differences in how they respond to language sounds compared to monolingual babies. The study used the brain-recording technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG) to measure brain responses in 11-month-old babies. 

Why we should pay everyone a basic income

Anthony Painter of think-tank the RSA and Lex writer Giles Wilkes debate the idea that governments should pay a universal basic income as they seek to tackle income inequality and technological disruption. FT employment correspondent Sarah O’Connor chairs.

Vietnam International Volunteer Placement Service

its never easy to choose a volunteer program, so many, so many promises. We dont boast about stats, dont claim to be the cheapest, the best, we just do what we do because we love it and because we can give people an opportunity to share. We live here, we volunteer here, and we love the work we do. We charge a fair fee that allows us to live and to provide the service that we do. We have one of the most needy, yet popular programs in Vietnam, Ba Vi disability center, or maybe you would like to teach in a local rural village primary school. We started our "Helping Hands" program to provide more assistance to our programs and the disadvantaged peoples of Vietnam.When you come to VIVPS you become part of an ever growing international and local family.

Success is a continuous journey

In his typically candid style, Richard St. John reminds us that success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey. He uses the story of his business' rise and fall to illustrate a valuable lesson — when we stop trying, we fail.

What Makes a Winning Team? SNL and Google Have the Formula.

It's incredible to think that Saturday Night Live and Google, given their very different goals, create teams of people similarly. But as reporter Charles Duhigg discovered, they very much do. For SNL, it was creator Lorne Michaels who managed a team of writers and comedians to produce a high-quality show under extremely rigid time constraints. At Google, the original hypothesis about teams — that the right combinations of personalities is what made them effective — proved false. What they found instead is that the coherency of group norms is the determining factor: in other words, is everyone on the same page about how the group works, and does everyone have a voice? If so, you can expect some good results.

Why Netflix Has Never Envied the Success of Google or Facebook

According to Netflix's VP of Product Development, there's a misconception about big data. It's not a treasure trove of information, as many people and their companies assume, but more like "a big mountain of garbage." The problem, as Todd Yellin sees it, is sifting through the data to find the information that will actually benefit users, and that data is few and far between.

Yellin appreciates the simplicity of the subscription model on which Netflix depends. While making the on-demand entertainment company entirely beholden to their customers for success, unlike Google and Facebook which draw substantial revenue from advertisers, it simplifies their understanding of big data. Ultimately it means serving one master, the customer, instead of two.

Leaders must be honest

"I think leadership is broken around the world," Stanford University President John Hennessy says in response to concerns raised about the global state of affairs. "Partly, it's broken because people don't like to tell the truth when the truth is difficult." In conversation with Stanford's Tina Seelig, Hennessy adds that leaders must clearly communicate what they're willing to do and not do.

Clarity of Mission

ZenPayroll Co-Founder and CEO Joshua Reeves discusses the importance of creating space for periodic introspection to reflect on one's journey and core values. Reeves says practicing this allowed him to see that he wanted to start a business that either helps people make a living doing something they love or empowers them to do something they've always wanted to do.