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Charles Latibeaudiere is an accomplished producer who helped redefine entertainment news coverage on TV and the internet as Co-Executive Producer of TMZ. Charles is part of the creative team that’s made TMZ the pop culture phenomenon of the 21st Century,…
Paul Silva is the Publisher and Editor in Chief of The Beach Reporter and General Manager of the Palos Verdes Peninsula News, free weekly community newspapers in the South Bay with a combined circulation of 75,000. When Silva joined Media…
Media is arguably more powerful than politics and Wall Street. Why? Because people take action based on what they learn from the media. There was a time when people learned about events and news from a single source, be it…
In 1953, twin brothers Bill and Bob Meistrell co-founded Body Glove when they designed the first practical wetsuit. Almost 60 years later Body Glove is one of very few family owned surf/dive brands in the world. It all began in…
America was built on the the idea of “rugged individualism”. Entrepreneurship, or the act of starting one’s own business, is truly an American symbol. Your idea, Inc.! It’s the promise of America – that with hard work and determination, each…
There is a good chance the world is less safe now than ever before. Military enemies are no longer identifiable. Governments are shifting. From Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, events go viral in seconds. How does a society balance…
David McCarthy was born and raised in New York. After earning Baccalaureate degrees in Political Science and Criminal Justice from Long Island University, David became a Police Officer in New York. While working on his master’s degree in Criminal Justice…
When industrial designer Ernie Meadows and his wife, Marj, lost their daughter, Ellen, Ernie decided to create a legacy to their daughter’s memory. Ellen died in an automobile accident when she was 18 years old. Originally Ernie intended to design…
The word “design” evokes a visual aesthetic – images of beauty and style. Yet design drives function as much as it does form. From products to systems, to cities, we design our lifestyle. We design our planet. The world as…
I grew up (well, sort of “up,” but not very far) in Southern California and went to college at Stanford. The most memorable part of my college experience was competing in gymnastics for four years. Went to med school at…