Oprah quitsTalkshow queen Oprah Winfrey has announced she will kill off The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011, after a 25-year run on-air. Rumour is that she’ll start a new show on her own cable network.
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You can’t teach
entrepreneurship
Many successful entrepreneurs — Bill Gates, Richard Branson — never attended business school, yet plenty of programs still claim they can teach it. Is entrepreneurship in the blood? And, how can big businesses harness it?
Can Oprah and Dan Brown save the publishing industry?
The recession-racked US publishing industry is hoping sales of Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol and the return of Oprah’s Book Club will be enough to carry them through the pre-Christmas period.
And the Wankley goes to … Fashion Week coverage, belittling the big
For their championing of chubby, several media outlets have this week earned the Wankley.
Oprah: Forbes’ most influential woman in American media
When you got it, you got it. Forbes lists the top ladies in the American media, from Oprah to Ellen DeGeneres, to Tyra Banks and Diane Sawyer — success measured in money, fame, audience and power.
Oprah lets indie books into her club
Books from independent publishers are rarely anointed by the big O’s seal of approval, but in a recent list of recommended reading, Oprah gave the thumbs-up to titles like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors.
Oprah hits back at Newsweek
Talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey has hit back against this Newsweek article that claims she promotes health “cures” that are dangerous and ineffective.
Filthy rich people meet in secret to solve GFC
Earlier this month Bill and Melinda Gates, Oprah, Ted Turner, Warren Buffett and others met in New York City in secret to try and figure out how to solve the GFC.
