At the helm of the top media outlets in the nation are all men. The Washington Post's Media Columnist Margaret Sullivan explains the conditions facing women in news, and ways to close the gender gap in newsroom mastheads.
"I think there are more women in powerful positions in media than there ever have been before," says Sullivan. "The problem is at the very, very top of those very powerful news organizations it's pretty rare for a woman to have broken through."
Men wrote 52 percent of bylined news articles and opinion pieces about reproductive issues in the nation’s 12 most widely circulated newspapers and news wires. Meanwhile, women penned 37 percent, according to the 2017 Women's Media Center Report. Men won 84 percent of a century’s worth of Pulitzer Prizes, while women won only 16 percent according to Women's Media Center.
On how the #MeToo movement has impacted newsrooms, Sullivan says, "to say this whole thing gone too far is really misguided." She goes on to say, "I think what's really going to rule the day is that this major reckoning we're having in our society and how extremely important it is and how it was brought about by courageous journalists and courageous women."
The grocery chain on Wednesday launched "Kroger Ship," a delivery service that carries products straight to customers' doorsteps. Yael Cosset, chief digital officer at the company, tells Cheddar how Kroger can compete in the grocery delivery business.
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Chipotle again faces the challenge of regaining customers' trust after new fears of possibly contaminated food recalled the fast-food chain's 2015 E. coli crisis, says Nathan Bomey, a business reporter for USA Today.
Michael Schramm, CEO of the Austin-based start-up, encourages those who want to get in on the fast-growing scooter space to buy fleets of his company's vehicles. GOAT will provide the hardware and insurance, while the entrepreneurs will negotiate terms with local authorities.
Facebook announced this week it removed 32 pages and accounts suspected of midterm election tampering. But New York Times reporter Kevin Roose tells Cheddar there's still not a lot of information about who's behind the meddling.
Walmart's tech incubator, Store No. 8, is entering the virtual- reality market. Katie Finnegan, CEO and co-founder of virtual reality start-up Spatialand and founding principal of Store No. 8, discussed the future of VR shopping on Cheddar Wednesday.
After customers at an Ohio Chipotle said they felt ill, the chain temporarily closed the restaurant, reminding many people of a 2015 E.coli outbreak. Nathan Bomey, a business reporter for USA Today, says it has been difficult for Chipotle to move beyond that food scare three years ago.
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Like Napster, the long-gone music file-sharing site, MoviePass has disrupted a segment of the entertainment industry. And like its predecessor, the movie-ticket subscription service may not last long enough to compete in the industry it remade, says Jason Guerrasio, senior entertainment reporter at Business Insider.
The chief prosecutor of Jersey City, Jake Hudnut, stopped prosecuting pot possession cases and said a proposed bill legalizing recreational marijuana could mean "conceivably there will never be another person prosecuted in New Jersey for simple marijuana possession."
