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The Last Supper
A celebration to end all celebrations…literally.
I had heard the rumors that there were more layoffs to come at Forbes, but given that my salary as a reporter was at the bottom of the newsroom totem pole, I felt certain I would not be a casualty.
Further proof of the fact that I was irreplaceable sat on my desktop: an invitation from Steve Forbes himself to a party for the African economist-turned-author Dambisa Moyo, whom I was interviewing about her new book Dead Aid. It didn’t make sense to invite me to a party and then lay me off. Or so I thought…
Laugh and the World–Oh, Wait…
Haven’t had enough of the economic roller coaster? Late last night, The Economist put out an April Fool’s press release riffing on the world’s woes.
The Economist can afford to have a sense of humor; the magazine topped off Media Week’s 2009 Magazine Hot List, with ad revenue up 25.5 percent last year.
Not so much at Forbes, whose former employees are circulating a release about the company’s intention to sell one of the four brothers who run it, in order to shore up finances.
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