Robert Klara
Senior Editor at Adweek
Senior editor for Adweek, author, speaker, and historian. Disposable income goes to shoes and bow ties. All opinions herein are my own.
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4 days ago |
adweek.com | Robert Klara
We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. At first blush, the recent hullabaloo over Gen Z preferring to pay for each drink at the bar instead of running a tab feels like just another social-media kerfuffle that amounts to, well, basically nothing. But if that tendency is real—and recent reporting by The New York Times suggests that it is—it’s bad news for liquor brands and the hospitality venues that serve alcohol.
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1 week ago |
adweek.com | Robert Klara
We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. A generation ago, the triple threat of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Great Recession and the “oil shock” that pushed crude prices to $147 a barrel sent airlines scrambling for new revenue sources. Among the easiest was slapping fees onto checked bags. American Airlines was the first major carrier to introduce them in 2008, followed by United, Delta, Alaska, and JetBlue.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Robert Klara
A generation ago, the triple threat of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Great Recession and the "oil shock" that pushed crude prices to $147 a barrel sent airlines scrambling for new revenue sources. Among the easiest was slapping fees onto checked bags. American Airlines was the first major carrier to introduce them in 2008, followed by United, Delta, Alaska, and JetBlue. And just like that, a freebie as reliable as a pillow and a bag of peanuts was free no longer. Except on Southwest.
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3 weeks ago |
adweek.com | Robert Klara
We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. For a man who drives race cars for a living, Lewis Hamilton has more going for him than a turbocharged V6. Since joining the Formula 1 circuit in 2007, the British sportsman has racked up 105 Grand Prix wins, made a cameo in Disney’s Cars 2, bought a stake in the Denver Broncos, sung on a Christina Aguilera record, and been knighted by the Prince of Wales.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Robert Klara
For a man who drives race cars for a living, Lewis Hamilton has more going for him than a turbocharged V6. Since joining the Formula 1 circuit in 2007, the British sportsman has racked up 105 Grand Prix wins, made a cameo in Disney's Cars 2, bought a stake in the Denver Broncos, sung on a Christina Aguilera record, and been knighted by the Prince of Wales. You'd think the dude could afford some new luggage. He can, of course.
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Last week, "Smithsonian" magazine ran my feature on the notorious Ruth Snyder execution photo of 1928. Sometimes people ask me what goes into history articles like this. Well, in this case, about six weeks of library research—which looks like this. https://t.co/fhZvdoFXps https://t.co/tfsJp6dMOq
Everyone tells me print is dead, but I don't care (and I don't agree.) I made the New York Times' Sunday edition, and that feels pretty satisfactory. https://t.co/eZqtVueGke https://t.co/8DhfK3CkfU
RT @NYTMetro: “For the same way that your air-conditioner doesn’t work well if your windows are open, air-conditioning isn’t effective on a…