Television

NEW YORK -- This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week. The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a series where cameras go into small businesses and employees ...

TOKYO -- Sony Corp. will cut about 10,000 jobs worldwide over the next year as it tries to return to profit, Japanese news reports said Monday. The Nikkei business daily and other media said Sony's decision to slash 6 percent of its workforce comes as it struggles with weak TV sales and swelling losses. ...

By Roberta Cowan (Reuters) - Philips Electronics has all but abandoned hope of selling its TV business by the end of the year, leaving a question mark over how quickly it can divest its loss-making problem child. ...

We have all read reports on the political prisoner who fasts to protest something -- no food, just water -- a hunger strike just to make a point. There are some of you who fast to cleanse your system and some who fast or deny yourselves certain niceties for religious reasons. The fast, or self-denial, can help ...

Studies have often ranked the fear of public speaking ahead of death, making the job of a television news reporter unfathomable to most. Still, it's a career glamorized by thousands of journalism students. The school year is spent learning the craft. The summers taking unpaid internships to fill an empty resume. ...