Mark Miller

1 week ago | thewrap.com | Mark Miller

TheWrap is pleased to announce that veteran business and technology editor Roger Cheng will be joining TheWrap as managing editor for business and PRO subscribers, bringing with him decades of experience leading newsrooms and shaping coverage. A former reporter for Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, Cheng was recently the head of news, executive editor and senior writer for nearly a dozen years at CNET, the world’s largest consumer tech news and reviews site.

1 week ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

How to manage for the possibility that you’ll need expensive long-term care as you age? This has long been one of the toughest challenges in retirement planning and policy circles. Will you need care? Probably—but the intensity and duration of need are impossible to predict. Who will provide care - a family member or a paid professional? How will you pay for care? Insurance is one logical solution for an unknown, potentially expensive risk like this. But in this case, not so much.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Mark Miller

Demand and costs for care are rising at the same time that a labor shortage threatens to worsen. How can you plan for this need now? Samir Shah is a forecaster - but he's an expert on the U.S. long-term care industry, not the weather. Right now, he is seeing storm clouds gathering for the Americans who will need help with basic living needs in the years ahead.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Mark Miller

At IBM, he hired a young Jim Henson to make humorous corporate films using his puppet creations. Mr. Henson later hired Mr. Lazer to help run his company. David Lazer, who as an IBM executive in the mid-1960s hired Jim Henson's Muppets to star in a series of short films that injected laughs into sales meetings - and who a decade later joined Mr. Henson's company as a producer - died on April 10 at his home in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 89.

2 weeks ago | deadline.com | Mark Miller

The Chrisleys, or at least some of them, are heading back to the small screen. Lifetime has ordered a series on the family, coming after parents Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced to many years in prison. The untitled series will follow members of the family including Savannah and Chase Chrisley, who are executive producers of the show.