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Howard Stern: Diamond in a Rough Patch

Mario Almonte | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Reality TV, King of All Media, Time Magazine, Martha Stewart, Reality Show, Broadcast, Howard Stern, Sirus XM, Pop Culture, Tv, Forbes, Satellite Radio, Boston University, Oprah Winfrey, New York Times Best Seller, Fcc, Radio, New York Times, Edgar Bergen, Howard Stern Show, Radio Hall of Fame, Jack Benny, Media News
Mario Almonte

For a man who almost single-handedly revolutionized the broadcasting industry, Stern continues to be spectacularly disrespected by the media that he so radically transformed.

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San Luis Valley Solar Project Pits New Energy Economy Against Entrenched Land Interests

Denver Business Journal | Cathy Proctor | Posted 10.28.2009 | Denver

Read More: Louis Bacon, Solar Power, San Luis Valley, Forbes, Bill Ritter, Moore Capital, Alternative Energy, Denver News

A big fight is brewing over a proposal to run a new, $180 million power line through Colorado's San Luis Valley -- and many see it as a referendum on ...

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Forbes Magazine Plans More Layoffs

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Steve Forbes, Forbes Layoffs, Forbes, Forbes Magazine, Magazines, Media News

Forbes magazine said on Monday that it planned to lay off several staff members from the editorial and business sides, a cost-cutting move in response...

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No Women Featured in NY Comedy Festival! No Joke!

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Women, New York, Media, The Daily Show, Business, Joy Behar, Style, Entertainment, Barbara Walters, Comedy Central, Living, Saturday Night Live, Women Comedians, The Stephen Colbert Show, Comedy, Conan O'Brien, White House Correspondents Association, Vanity Fair, The View, Emmy Awards, Wanda Sykes, Friars Club, Jay Leno, Tom Shales, New York Comedy Festival, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Helen Thomas, David Letterman, Craig Ferguson, E!, Kristin Wiig, Sherri Shepherd, Comediennes, Whoppi Goldberg, Chelsea Handler, Impact, Lifetime, Women's History, Oxygen, Joan Rivers, Lizz Winstead, Fox Network, Forbes, Entertainment News
Beverly Wettenstein

The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.

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Something to Sleep On

Russ Baker | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: NYU Medical Center, William J. Clinton Foundation, Bankruptcy, Harvard University, New York Times, Leveraged Buyouts, Democratic Party, Forbes, Private Equity, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Barack Obama, Charities, Simmons, Business News
Russ Baker

It's worthwhile to have a further look at some of the players cited briefly in the Times article about the Simmons mattress company, so here is a bit more on the private equity kingpin Thomas H. Lee.

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The Best States For Business

ABC News | Kurt Badenhausen | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Best States for Business Rankings, Forbes, Business, Economy, Recession, Best Business States, Business News

The recession has shaken up our fourth-annual ranking of the Best States for Business with some big movers up (North Dakota, Oregon and Iowa) and some...

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Forbes' Annual Richest People List Includes 6 Coloradans

Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Philip Anschutz, Charles Ergen, Pat Stryker, Slideshow, Billionaires, Forbes, Gary Magness, Colorado, Denver News

Forbes released its annual list of the country's wealthiest people on Thursday. There were 6 Coloradans on the list, headed for the first time by inv...

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The Forbes 400 Shows Why Our Nation Is Falling Apart

Les Leopold | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Wealth, Wall Street, Income Inequality, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Higher Education, Health Care, Global Warming, Eisenhower, Forbes 400, Middle Class, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Billionaires, Forbes, Tax Breaks, Forbes 400 Richest Americans, Business News
Les Leopold

Collectively, the Forbes 400 have $1.57 trillion in wealth. It's hard to get your mind around a number like that. So let's imagine that it was available for the public good. What does $1.57 trillion buy?

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Arianna Interviewed By Moira Forbes On Achieving Success (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Arianna, Arianna Forbes Video, Video, Arianna Interview, Forbes, Business News
Huff TV

Arianna was interviewed by Moira Forbes, publisher of Forbes magazine, about how to balance one's work with a life outside of work, and the importance...

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This Week in Magazines: An Electric-Fuel-Trade Acid Test and the South Rises Against the New Yorker

James Warren | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Oxford American, The New Yorker, Malcom Gladwell, Time, American Music, Forbes, The Economist, Magazines, Media News
James Warren

Those old, wicked animosities between New York City and Conway, Ark., are heating up.

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Forbes: Broncos 10th Most Valuable NFL Team At $1.1 Billion

Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver

Read More: Pat Bowlen, Mike Shanahan, Broncos, Dallas Cowboys, Forbes, Jay Cutler, Most Valuable NFL Teams, Denver News

Forbes released its annual list of the most valuable NFL franchises on Wednesday, and the Broncos ranked 10th. This is slight improvement over last y...

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Is ExxonMobil Really the "Green Company of the Year"?

James Hoggan | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Sustainability, Forbes, Global Warming, Climate Change, Exxonmobil, Xom, Green News
James Hoggan

As the most profitable company in the history of companies, Exxon is in a position to do a huge amount of good -- or to continue doing a huge, huge amount of damage.

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America's Five Most Stressful Cities

ABC News | Sarah Lynch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Stressful Cities, Forbes, Chicago, Cities, US Cities, Living News

Few enjoy their commute. Just ask Stephen Dinwiddie, M.D., a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago....

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Forbes' Most Powerful Women Also Most Stylish

Huffington Post via Forbes | Posted 09.21.2009 | Style

Read More: Style News, 100 Most Powerful Women, Hillary Clinton Style, Tarja Halnonen Style, Michelle Obama Style, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Style, Nancy Pelosi Style, Yulia Tymoshenko Style, World's 100 Most Powerful Women, Queen Rania Style, Queen Elizabeth II Style, Forbes Most Powerful Women, Forbes, Sonia Sotomayor Style, Angela Merkel Style, Style News

Forbes recently released its list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women and we noticed that many of them are also the world's most stylish. Coinciden...

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Top 15 Most Powerful Women In Business (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Indra Nooyi, Women in Power, Woman Ceo, Women CEOs, Women Ceo, Carol Bartz, Slidepoll, Women Leading Companies, Women in Business, Powerful Women, Sheila Bair, Forbes, Business Women, Business News

Today, Forbes released its list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Inspired by Forbes' list, we decided to come up with our own account of t...

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Man Behind the Curtain: Freedom Works VP Forbes Talks

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Leadership, Health Reform, Forbes, Politics News
Mario Solis-Marich

On Friday I interviewed Steve Forbes. In a quick few minutes he claimed that people in England over 65 years of age could not receive dialysis,and that Obama wanted single payer.

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Forbes Names Denver A Top-Ten City For Working Mothers

Denver Business Journal | Mark Harden | Posted 09.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: Denver Working Mothers, Working Mothers, Forbes, Denver, Forbes Top Cities for Working Mothers, Denver News

Denver ranks No. 10 on ForbesWoman's first-ever list of America's "Best Cities For Working Mothers." New York tops the list, followed by Austin, Texa...

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Bollywood Stars Compete With Hollywood For The Big Earnings

Indipepal | Prashant Agrawal | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: India, Akshay Kumar, Bollywood, Bollywood Stars, Bollywood Movies, Bollywood Endorsements, King of Bollywood, Hollywood, Forbes' Richest Celebrities, Forbes, Forbes' Top Celebrity List, World News

Forbes annually publishes its top celebrities list based on earnings and visibility. Top Hollywood earners make more than $100 million dollars ann...

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Jim Spanfeller, Forbes.com CEO, Stepping Down

Daily Finance | Jeff BercoviciJul 15th 2009 at 9:00PM | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media

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Jim Spanfeller, president and CEO of Forbes.com and executive vice president of electronic publishing, is stepping down, according to sources. The ann...

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Oprah Winfrey, Diane Sawyer Top Forbes' Most Influential Women In Media List

Forbes | Shikha Dalmia | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Barbara Waters, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, Forbes, Forbes Most Influential Women in Media, Diane Sawyer, Ellen Degeneres, Media News

Oprah Winfrey may have been bumped to No. 2 on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list, but in media, she reigns supreme. Thanks to her loyal talk show audience...

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Forbes Magazine's "Most Troubled Luxury Neighborhoods" Include 5 Long Island Communities

Newsday | ELLEN YAN and GARY DYMSKI | | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York

Read More: Sagaponack, Long Island, Amagansett, New York, Long Island New York, New York Long Island, Forbes List, Bridgehampton, Luxury Neighborhoods, Most Troubled Luxury Neighborhoods, Southampton, Forbes, Old Westbury, New York News

Five Long Island communities placed in Forbes magazine's top 12 "most troubled luxury neighborhoods," where the number of listings versus recent sales...

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Paul Klebnikov's Murder Five Years Later: Reflections On The Murder Of Forbes Russia Founding Editor

Forbes | Dan Gerstein | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Murder, Russia, Russian Media, Forbes Russia, Forbes, Paul Klebnikov, Media News

The murder of Paul Klebnikov five years ago still shocks today. Paul was the founding editor of Forbes Russia, assuming this post after a long, distin...

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Campbell Brown Ratings Hit 2009 Low

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Campbell Brown Ratings, Campbell Brown No Bias No Bull, Media News, TV Ratings, Forbes, CNN Ratings, Campbell Brown, Media News

CNN's "Campbell Brown" hit a new ratings low for 2009 on Friday, June 19, when she averaged just 516,000 total viewers. Brown's previous 2009 low had...

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This Week in Magazines: The "Capitalist Tool" Says Angelina Tops Oprah

James Warren | Posted 07.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Ana Ivanovic, Stephen Colbert, Newsweek, Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Simon Baron-Cohen, Angelina Jolie, Business Week, Autism, Forbes, Britain, Iraq, Media News
James Warren

It's been a tough week for Oprah. First a terrific Newsweek cover underscored her penchant to legitimize wacky medical claims on her show. Now June 22 Forbes dethrones her as the "most powerful celebrity."

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Angelina Jolie Named World's Most Powerful Celebrity By Forbes

AP | ERIN CARLSON | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Celebrity 100 List, Angelina Jolie, Forbes 100, Forbes, Forbes Celebrity 100 List, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Angelina Jolie has dethroned Oprah Winfrey as the world's most powerful celebrity, according to Forbes. The actress grabbed the No. ...

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