Newsstand

The business world is tough and competitive, and everyone knows that to succeed in it, you have to have a wide array of skills. …

PUBLISHED: at My Korean American Story: Assembling the Sunday New York Times at the Choi’s. A story I wrote for The Junction was reprinted at Korean American Story, whose mission is “documenting the Korean American experience through personal stories.” This version includes a photograph of the Math Team from my high-school yearbook, where I look the part—nerdy. Here’s the original in The Junction:

Love Can Look Like So Many Things When I was five, a kid from my neighborhood was bitten by a street dog, infected with rabies, and spent a month paralyzed in bed before he drowned from his saliva. His doting parents, who continued to share his meals despite his illness, contracted…

ometimes I feel sorry for our recruitment team. They spent years looking for rockstar developers, only to realize that the developers they should have been searching for are actually ninjas. When they finally found where ninja developers live, and learned to speak the ninja language, the target moved once again…

If I had made an entry in my diary every time someone told me, in all seriousness, that the single copy sales business was: Terrible, horrible, corrupt, inefficient, outdated, out of touch, wasteful, mobbed up, operated like the mafia, doomed, too busy ripping off publishers, retailers, wholesalers, consumers — to…

Permanent Musical Accompaniment to this post: I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Magazine Innovation Center’s ACT 7 conference at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS last week. The Magazine Innovation Center was founded in 2009 by Dr. Samir Husni of the University of Mississippi’s Meek School…

As revenues decline for newspapers, he offers toys, candy, bread PAMPLONA, Spain — Those who study the business of media tend to look at it from the perspective of journalists and publishers. But the owner of a newsstand in the heart of this provincial capital has a different point of…

Song Eun starts his days at the Greenwich Village newsstand, where he has worked for over a decade, a little before 6 a.m., in time to catch the neighborhood’s early risers. …

Time Inc. to offer magazines through Apple’s Newsstand