Welcome to The Daily Follow-Up!
This blog will highlight new accountability and investigative reporting projects from around the country and offer follow-up stories that will help bring previously published stories up to date. We...
View ArticleSurveying Wage Violations
To examine urban working conditions in major American cities, Annette Bernhardt and colleagues at the National Employment Law Project interviewed 4,387 workers in low-wage industries in Chicago, Los...
View ArticleRegulatory Reform Rolls On
The House Financial Services Committee passed an amendment Wednesday that would significantly expand the power of regulators to combat systemic risk by dismantling financial institutions. Congressman...
View ArticleSee, Click, Fix and Report
Citizen watchdogs sometimes watch actual dogs. A recent New Haven Register story described a police raid motivated in part by citizen reports of animal cruelty posted on SeeClickFix.com, a site where...
View ArticleTainted Food and Nursing Homes
A disturbing USA Today story by Blake Morrison and Peter Eisler last week raised questions about the extent to which schools in Wisconsin and elsewhere have unknowingly served tainted food. Morrison...
View ArticleClear as Snow?
Accountability. That's the word Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's uses to describe his rationale for employing GPS sensors and camera surveillance to lower Chicago's snow removal costs. In an intriguing...
View ArticleWelcome to the New Daily Follow-Up!
Welcome to an experiment - for the last few months of 2011, I'm testing this resource is a place to host my weekly columns for The Daily, along with column-related notes, thoughts, links and follow-up...
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Column #1: 2 Ways Companies Kill Products
In my first column for The Daily, I addressed two paths companies take when they're ready to put a product or service to pasture.Here's a screenshot of the Web version of the first column, with a...
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Column #2: Beyond Banks
For my second column for The Daily, I focused on the frustrations people feel with banks, and how startups may push banking in a more consumer-friendly direction.I mentioned Betterment and BankSimple,...
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Column #3: Giving Where it Counts
Here's the opening of my third column for The Daily, on efficacy and corporate philanthropy. Graphic Courtesy of The DailyDonation season is fast approaching. As charity mailings kick into overdrive...
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Column #4: The NYC Tech Hub
Here's my fourth column for The Daily. Graphic Courtesy of The DailyWhen you think of the city that hosts Goldman Sachs, Donald Trump and the Yankees, “underdog” might not be the first word that comes...
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Column #5: After Jobs...
My fifth column for the Daily is about some of the tech leaders poised for visionary leadership, after the death of Steve Jobs. Here's the opening of the column... An obsession with design. A...
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Qwikster Column
... Posted my sixth column for The Daily this week, on the fate of Qwikster and Netflix's decision-making:Here's the opening of the column... Naming is tough. Just ask Thoof, Oooooc.com, Sclipo, Jiglu...
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Siri and the Future of Phones
Siri is the subject of my seventh column. Here's the opening section: Siri tells us our futureThe talking iPhone has only just started to change the worldPhoto Courtesy of AppleIf Jeeves, of Ask Jeeves...
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Competing for Holiday Customers
Retailers are adopting some new strategies this year to compete more aggressively for local customers. Here's my column on the subject...Graphic Courtesy of The DailyForget Black Friday. Christmas...
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Global Entrepreneurship Week
Beyond Debt: Startups and The Future of GrowthGraphic excerpted from The DailyHere's the opening of my column on Global Entrepreneurship Week #GEW:"Amid the gloom and doom of debt debacles in the...
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Beyond the Social Media Giants: The Value of Quora
Why Quora Has Value for BusinessesFrom my column for The Daily:"Twitter and Facebook hog the social media spotlight. But beyond the social giants, there’s a smaller player: the question-and-answer site...
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Pet Market On the Rise
Here's an excerpt from my recent column on the pet market:... The luxury pet market is angling for its cut of Black Friday booty. This year, Americans will spend almost $51 billion on their pets, of...
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Startups Poised for 2012
The tech world has its own 99 percent. They’re the legions of startups nipping at the heels of digital giants but rarely breaking into the mainstream. Most startups that have tossed up a site this year...
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The Restaurant Biz in 2012
PHOTO: Bryan Bedder/The DailyAmericans spent $1.7 billion a day at the nearly 1 million U.S. restaurants in 2011. Given that nearly half of American adults have worked at a restaurant at some point,...
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