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Get to know investor protection leader Christine Kieffer
Investors need to know that there is a visible and vocal advocate for investor protection and financial education looking out for them. That person is Christine Kieffer, the new president of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation (FINRA Foundation). FINRA (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) oversees member broker-dealers ... (full story)
The Ford Foundation, one of the world's largest grantmakers, will throw more weight behind democracy
NEW YORK (AP) — The Ford Foundation, one of the world's largest private grantmakers, will overhaul its spending to counter what new leadership views as the mutually reinforcing rise of both autocracy and inequality.
The New York-based philanthropy committed Oct. 21 to driving more funds toward the basic building blocks of ... (full story)
Local public media merger continues to move ahead
After announcing plans to merge in September, PBS Western Reserve and Ideastream Public Media are moving ahead with the regulatory steps necessary to complete the deal, which leaders say will not only preserve existing content but provide the ability to expand on programming.
The agreement was announced on Sept. 17, afte ... (full story)
AI agents are only as good as the personal information you share. That raises privacy concerns
Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard. So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta's new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver's seat.
Muse got to work. But within a day, Robb got an alarming update: A buyer he didn't know had shown up outside his ho ... (full story)
The rumor mill at work: When gossip protects coworkers and when it backfires
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephanie Joseph was working at a television station when someone started a false rumor claiming she and a married colleague were romantically involved.
Joseph, then 20, barely knew the man in question and didn't hear the gossip until a producer told her it was circulating.
“I’m thinking to ... (full story)