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Jason Calicanis: You Are Your Own Media Company
"The most important [thing] young people need to realize is audience equals power. ... The bigger your audience and the deeper your connection with it, the more opportunity you're going to have in your life."
February 18, 2014
Mark Andrejevic: We Are All "Lab Rats" Online
"Is there a point that we get creeped out by the use of data to target advertising to us?"
February 18, 2014
Allison Arling-Giorgi: For Gen Y, Brands Are Our Peers
"We feel the need to express our thoughts and opinions when it comes to practically everything. So if we say something about a brand or a company or an experience, we have a captive audience. Our peers are listening."
February 18, 2014
danah boyd: The Kids Are All Right
"The best way to understand young people's relationship to the attention economy is to realize that they're ... trying to make sense of it as part of the public world in which they're growing up."
February 18, 2014
From "The Merchants of Cool" to "Generation Like"
How a high-school English teacher in Cincinnati inspired FRONTLINE's latest exploration of marketing to that all-powerful demographic: American teens.
February 18, 2014
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Generation Like
FRONTLINE explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media - and how big brands are increasingly co-opting young consumers' digital presences.
February 18, 2014
Martoma Found Guilty For Historic Insider Trading Scheme
Former SAC Capital portfolio Manager Mathew Martoma has been convicted for what may have been "the most lucrative inside tip of all time."
February 6, 2014
The Martoma Trial: Five Things We've Learned So Far
From falsified transcripts to a "flabbergasted" witness, Mathew Martoma's insider trading trial has offered new insights into what authorities call "the most lucrative inside tip of all time."
January 24, 2014
How Do You Catch a Trader? Live Chat 1 pm ET Wed. 1/8
Join a live chat on “To Catch a Trader” with producers Martin Smith and Nick Verbitsky, and guest questioner Peter Henning from “DealBook.” You can leave a question now.
January 7, 2014
Should Insider Trading Be Legal?
The government’s crackdown on insider trading has shaken much of Wall Street -- and renewed a debate over whether such deal-making should even be illegal to begin with.
January 7, 2014
Quiz: Spot the Inside Trade
Where is the line when it comes to insider trading? We picked six examples from the annals of Wall Street to see if you can spot the illegal deal.
January 7, 2014
Did Steven Cohen Fail to Supervise His Employees?
It's the question at the heart of a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against the billionaire and founder of hedge fund SAC Capital. Cohen says he's not to blame. Read his attorneys' full response.
January 7, 2014