Celebrity, Resilience, and Communication: The Role of Some Good News During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The response of local government (LG) to issues of rising rates of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is an important one given their roles as place managers. This article explores the experiences of LG built environment and community health practitioners to identify barriers and enablers to the implementation of healthy planning and associated active living promotion efforts. The role of Australian LG in community health is presented, followed by findings from practitioner surveys and policy analysis undertaken, with subsequent discussion of the barriers and enablers. Six key enablers and barriers to successful project implementation were identified: (1) internal LG functioning, (2) the promotion of co-benefits, (3) partnerships, (4) the value of recognition and good news, (5) placing a mandate for action on LG and (6) funding and resourcing.

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Good news media book in regional bad news year

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v13i1.894 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 211-212

Author(s):

Patrick Craddock

Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

News Media ◽

National Development ◽

New Guinea ◽

Bad News ◽

Good News ◽

Journalism Education ◽

Media Ownership ◽

The Media

Media, Information and Development in Papua New Guinea is one of the most interesting books I have on Pacific media. It is a collection of different writers, some of whom are current or former journalists. Several of the authors have direct media links as staff working with the Divine Word University in Madang, a private Christian institution. For the uninitiated, the opening chapter gives an outline of the media landscape in PNG. Other chapters explore media ownership, journalism education and the role of media national development.

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The Role of Family Ownership in Survival and Bouncing Back

Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage - Competitiveness, Organizational Management, and Governance in Family Firms ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1655-3.ch011 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 261-282

Author(s):

María Iborra ◽

Vicente Safón ◽

Consuelo Dolz

Keyword(s):

Family Firms ◽

Good News ◽

Family Ownership ◽

Stressful Event ◽

Positive Role ◽

Bankruptcy Risk ◽

Negative Effect ◽

Litmus Test ◽

The Relationship

The latest global economic and financial crisis has been a litmus test for companies, especially for SMEs. These companies have had to demonstrate their ability to be resilient, surviving first and then recovering. This chapter studies the role of family ownership in the survival and recovery of SMEs during a stressful event. From a perspective based on the complementarity or substitutability of goals that family firms pursue, the authors propose that family ownership has a positive effect on survival but a negative effect on recovery. Furthermore, they propose that the risk of bankruptcy before a crisis moderates the relationship between family ownership and survival. Hypotheses have been tested with a dataset of 3,133 Spanish manufacturing MEs finding evidence for the positive role of family ownership in survival and for the moderating effect of previous bankruptcy risk. The empirical data confirms good news for family-owned firms.

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The Role of the Media in the Internet IPO Bubble

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis ◽

10.1017/s0022109009990056 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 657-682 ◽

Cited By ~ 102

Author(s):

Utpal Bhattacharya ◽

Neal Galpin ◽

Rina Ray ◽

Xiaoyun Yu

Keyword(s):

Initial Public Offerings ◽

Good News ◽

News Item ◽

The Internet ◽

Public Offerings ◽

Share Prices ◽

Dramatic Rise ◽

The Media ◽

Media Hype

AbstractWe read all news items that came out between 1996 and 2000 on 458 Internet initial public offerings (IPOs) and a matching sample of 458 non-Internet IPOs (a total of 171,488 news items) and classify each news item as good news, neutral news, or bad news. We first document that the media were more positive for Internet IPOs in the period of the dramatic rise in share prices and more negative for Internet IPOs in the period of the dramatic fall in share prices. We then document that media hype is unable to explain the Internet bubble: A 1,646% difference exists in returns between Internet stocks and non-Internet stocks from January 1, 1997, through March 24, 2000 (the market peak), and the media can explain only 2.9% of that.

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Persistence of earnings and prediction of future cash flows: the role of timely recognition of bad news

Verslas teorija ir praktika ◽

10.3846/btp.17.11124 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 353-360

Author(s):

Gholamreza Kordestani ◽

Maryam Taqiporian ◽

Vahid Biglari ◽

Vahid Minaei

Keyword(s):

Stock Exchange ◽

Cash Flows ◽

Bad News ◽

Good News ◽

Type Model ◽

Panel Type ◽

Future Cash Flows

Timely recognition of losses and expenses compared to revenues and increased values precipitates future expenses to match with current revenues. Thus, timely recognition of losses acts to reduce the persistence of earnings. However, it is expected that a more timely recognition of negative cash flows, as bad news, increase the power of earnings for predicting future cash flows. This study investigates the effects of the timely recognition of bad news (loss) versus the good news on the decrease of the persistence of earnings, and the effect of negative cash flows on forecasting future cash flows. In this study, two pooling type models and a panel type model have been used to estimate the persistence of earnings and cash flows. Seventy eight firms that were listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange during the period 2003–2010 were duly reviewed. The results of this research proved that the timely recognition of loss does not affect the persistence and the power of earnings for the purpose of forecasting future cash flows. The findings imply that conservatism does not distort persistence of earnings.

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Filsafat Kenabian Muhammad Saw. di dalam al-Quran

MAGHZA Jurnal Ilmu Al-Qur an dan Tafsir ◽

10.24090/maghza.v6i2.5720 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 189-203

Author(s):

Hakam Al-Ma'mun

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Good News ◽

Existence Of God ◽

Philosophical Approach ◽

Human Reason ◽

Religious Doctrine ◽

The Middle Ages

The discussion of Prophetic philosophy was one of the central themes for Muslim philosophers in the Middle Ages. This is because one of the foundations of the Muslim faith is built on trust in God's messengers as recipients and transmitters of divine messages. Therefore, if someone has claimed to be a believer, the consequence that must be accepted is to believe in the existence of Muhammad's prophecy. However, history records the existence of some groups of Muslims in the Middle Ages that have ruled out the role of a prophet. The assumption that underlies them solely rests on the role of human reason which is considered sufficient to lead him to the truth so that the role of prophethood is no longer needed. This paper highlights how the Qur'an explains the concept of Muhammad's prophecy with all the visions and missions it carries. The Qur'an through sura al-Ahzab verses 45-46 has captured some of the prophetic characteristics of Muhammad. The philosophical approach in this research is a concrete effort to understand and explain religious doctrine more logically and systematically. The results of this study indicate that sura al-Ahzab verses 45-46 contain the prophetic message of Muhammad's prophethood, that is his testimony as a messenger who brings good news as well as a warning to people who are in denial of the existence of God. In addition, Muhammad also played a role as a caller for truth and a guide for lost mankind.

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Good news, bad news, and fake news

Journal of Documentation ◽

10.1108/jd-05-2018-0074 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

pp. 213-228 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

John Buschman

Keyword(s):

Information Science ◽

Social Role ◽

Good News ◽

Fake News ◽

Theoretical Understanding ◽

Content Type ◽

The Public ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Definition Of

PurposeLibrary and Information Science (LIS) has seen an explosion of responses to fake news in the aftermath of the 2016 US election, political in nature, eschewing “neutrality” supporting democracy. The purpose of this paper is to trace the definition of fake news, the challenges, the roots of recent respondes to fake news, notes that the theoretical understanding of democracy must keep pace with these efforts.Design/methodology/approachConceptual analysis of the LIS literature concerning fake news and its underlying themes; unpacking of actually existing democracy, re-linked to LIS practices.FindingsDemocracy does not require a space cleared of distorting claims but spaces suited to grappling with them, a call to address fake news, and not simply a matter of clearing up information sources; librarians should prepared to engage at the next level. Libraries stand for the proposition that there is more-true information which is worth accessing, organizing, etc., and for inclusion. Whether explicitly political or not, the imaginative uses to which libraries are put do enrich civil society and the public sphere. Libraries help to counter fake news both through specific educative actions aimed at it and as broadly educative institutions with a coherent notion of their relationship to informational discernment in democracy.Originality/valueLIS discourse on fake news has value, and references democracy, but assumes a set of traditional relationships between informing, libraries and democracy. This paper goes at both the lesser role of informing and highlights the (arguably) greater social role of libraries in democratic society.

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Pelacarsen for lowering lipoprotein(a): implications for patients with chronic kidney disease

Clinical Kidney Journal ◽

10.1093/ckj/sfaa001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 753-757

Author(s):

Raul Fernandez-Prado ◽

Maria Vanessa Perez-Gomez ◽

Alberto Ortiz

Keyword(s):

Chronic Kidney Disease ◽

Kidney Disease ◽

Messenger Rna ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Good News ◽

Phase 2 ◽

Phase 3 ◽

Lipoprotein A ◽

Increased Risk

Abstract Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and statins may not be protective in advanced CKD. The reasons for the limited efficacy of statins in advanced CKD are unclear, but statins may increase plasma levels of the highly atherogenic molecule lipoprotein(a), also termed Lp(a), as well as PCSK9 (protein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) levels. Lp(a) has also been linked to calcific aortic stenosis, which is common in CKD. Moreover, circulating Lp(a) levels increase in nephrotic syndrome with declining renal function and are highest in patients on peritoneal dialysis. Thus, the recent publication of the Phase 2 randomized controlled trial of pelacarsen [also termed AKCEA-APO(a)-LRx and TQJ230], a hepatocyte-directed antisense oligonucleotide targeting the LPA gene messenger RNA, in persons with CVD should be good news for nephrologists. Pelacarsen safely and dose-dependently decreased Lp(a) levels by 35–80% and a Phase 3 trial [Lp(a)HORIZON, NCT04023552] is planned to run from 2020 to 2024. Unfortunately, patients with estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 mL/min or urinary albumin:creatinine ratio >100 mg/g were excluded from Phase 2 trials and those with ‘significant kidney disease’ will be excluded from the Phase 3 trial. Optimized exclusion criteria for Lp(a)HORIZON would provide insights into the role of Lp(a) in CVD in CKD patients.

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Political Influence and TARP: An Analysis of Treasury's Disposition of CPP Warrants

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096512000029 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 45 (02) ◽

pp. 211-217 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Lucas Puente

Keyword(s):

Political Influence ◽

Good News ◽

Preferential Treatment ◽

Sale Price ◽

The Us ◽

Fair Market Value ◽

To Receive ◽

Political Variables ◽

Politically Active

AbstractI investigate one mechanism through which financial institutions could have used political influence to receive preferential treatment in the US Department of the Treasury-administered “bailout.” I find that neither proxies of political influence nor other political variables, such as public interest in specific deals, can explain variance in the sale price of warrants (a type of financial asset) Treasury acquired through TARP's Capital Purchase Program. Moreover, I find that the more politically active the firm is, the more likely Treasury is to auction its warrants (thereby receiving fair market value). This conclusion is not consistent with recent studies investigating the role of such variables in the initial administration of TARP and can be interpreted as good news for American taxpayers.

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