by Larry Elkin

When a hotel investment firm decided a 10-block stretch of Miami Beach needed a name, the easy part was coming up with SoBe 10, to catch a little of the cachet of South Beach. The hard part was getting the name to catch on.

It’s college graduation time. Which means hugging, crying, packing, moving and worrying about what the future holds.

This year’s graduation at Ithaca College in upstate New York connected baby boomer parents with their recent graduates via the shocking realization that if Dustin Hoffman’s character in the graduate was real, he would be retiring this year. And what a working career he would have had.

by Peter M. Gordon

Two questions for your consideration: “What are the networks looking for?” I also ask cable networks a similar question — “What shows do you want to air?”

Although the dynamics of newspapers may have changed, what made newspapermen dynamic still lives on.