Posts Tagged Personnel

MLB improves diversity among senior administration

NEW YORK (AP) — While Major League Baseball teams improved racial diversity in hiring senior administrators, the employment of women is still lagging, according to the annual report by Richard Lapchick’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida.

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LinkedIn looks to build on its impressive resume

In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013, photo, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, right, and company co-founder Reid Hoffman sit in the lobby of LinkedIn's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. LinkedIn and Facebook celebrate the anniversaries of their IPOs just a few days apart this week. But the companies' experiences as publicly traded entities couldn't be more different. LinkedIn promotes its service as a stepping stone to a more enriching career. As it turns out, the professional networking company's IPO was a great place to start a rewarding investment portfolio, too. LinkedIn's stock has nearly quadrupled in value from its $45 IPO price two years ago. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — LinkedIn and Facebook will celebrate the anniversaries of their IPOs just a few days apart this week. But their experiences as publicly traded companies couldn’t be more different.

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Tully named president and CEO of The Denver Post

DENVER (AP) — Mac Tully, president and publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, has been named president and chief executive officer of The Denver Post.

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Natural gas export plans stir debate

This undated aerial file photo provided by Dominion shows the Dominion Liquefied Natural Gas (LGN) facility in Cove Point, Md. A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Expanded More than 20 projects to export LNG are under review by the Energy Department. (AP Photo/Dominion)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking.

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Ex-chef to Va. governor central in political drama

In this July 14, 2010 photo, executive chef Todd Schneider stands in the dining room of the Executive Mansion in Richmond, Va. The celebrated chef no longer works at the mansion. He now faces trial in the summer of 2013 on charges of felony embezzlement for allegedly pilfering food from the governor’s official residence. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Joe Mahoney)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When he was hired in 2010 as chef at Virginia’s historic Executive Mansion, Todd Schneider came with celebrity cachet, claiming connections to cooking world stars such as Martha Stewart and Paula Deen. And when a cable channel toured the governor’s mansion, Schneider was cast as co-star to first lady Maureen McDonnell, showing off the gardens he tended and the kitchen he ran.

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