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.