http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21711265-readership-surging-stephen-bannons-alt-right-news-outfit-about-launch-french-and
If Breitbart recruits well-known figures to head local brands, as the Huffington Post has done, its path may be smoother still. In Britain, alongside Mr Kassam, it appointed James Delingpole, a conservative polemicist who writes in the Spectator, a 180-year-old right-of-centre magazine. Things are going well: the site’s audience has grown by 135% year on year, to 15m monthly page views in July, meaning it has a bigger reach than the Spectator’s own website. Not bad for a firm recently called a “bunch of nuts” by a spokesman for Mitt Romney, a former presidential candidate. The business of outrage, led in the early days by Rush Limbaugh, a right-wing talk-show host, and then perfected by Fox News, may well become another ubiquitous American export.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/12/losing-it-all/505814/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-weekly-120216
Less than 40 years ago, casino gambling was illegal everywhere in the United States outside of Nevada and Atlantic City, New Jersey. But since Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988, tribal and commercial casinos have rapidly proliferated across the country, with some 1,000 now operating in 40 states. Casino patrons bet more than $37 billion annually—more than Americans spend to attend sporting events ($17.8 billion), go to the movies ($10.7 billion), and buy music ($6.8 billion) combined.
http://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/washington_post_bezos_amazon_revolution.php
In the three years since Amazon’s Jeff Bezos bought the Post for $250 million—now seen as a steal for one of the great brands in publishing—the Post has reinvented itself with digital speed. Its Web traffic has doubled since Bezos arrived, and it far outstrips The New York Times (and even BuzzFeed) in the number of online posts its reporters file every day. So successful has the Post become in the digital game that it now licenses its content management system to other news outlets, a business that could generate $100 million a year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/helen-mirren-pirelli-calendar_us_583efde8e4b0c33c8e134d4e
Mirren joined Nicole Kidman, Charlotte Rampling, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong’o and others in posing for the set of images, each expressing in the accompanying video above their admiration for Lindbergh’s ability to capture them in a more natural state than the usual photoshoot.
