Podcast appearances and mentions of shalini ramachandran

The Davos conference brings together the world's elites to try to make the world a better place. But according to some current and former employees, the leader of the organizing body behind Davos fosters a toxic workplace. WSJ's Shalini Ramachandran discusses her investigation into the World Economic Forum and the impact of a recent anonymous whistleblower letter. Annie Minoff hosts.  Sign up for WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For decades, telecom companies have known that lead in their networks posed risks to workers, and did little about it. Lead can cause a variety of ailments in adults, affecting the kidney, heart and reproductive systems, and it is classified as a probable human carcinogen. WSJ's Shalini Ramachandran explains the danger of lead cables -- and what telephone companies knew. Further Reading: - America Is Wrapped in Miles of Toxic Lead Cables  - What AT&T and Verizon Knew About Toxic Lead Cables  -​​ Workers Exposed to Toxic Lead Cables Wrestle With the Aftermath  - How the Journal Investigated Hidden Lead Cables Circling the U.S.  Further Listening: - Part 1: America Is Wrapped in Toxic Lead Cables  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an 18-month investigation, The Wall Street Journal found thousands of lead covered cables across America, some leaching the toxic metal into places where people live, work and play. We travel with the team across the country to test the soil and water around these cables and speak to families living near them. WSJ's Susan Pulliam and Shalini Ramachandran explain what these high levels of lead in The Journal's sampling could mean for people across the country. Further Reading: - America Is Wrapped in Miles of Toxic Lead Cables  - How the Journal Investigated Hidden Lead Cables Circling the U.S.  - Bayou Teche Is an Epicenter of America's Lead Cable Problem  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Joe Biden made good on a campaign promise this week with a proposal to limit short-term health plans that boast low premiums but few benefits.Meanwhile, the Supreme Court's decision to outlaw affirmative action programs could set back efforts to diversify the nation's medical workforce.Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Amy Goldstein of The Washington Post, and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KFF Health News' chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner, to discuss these issues and more.Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News' Bram Sable-Smith, who reported the latest KFF Health News-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature about how a hospital couldn't track down a patient, but a debt collector could. Click here for a transcript of the episode.Plus for “extra credit” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week they think you should read, too: Julie Rovner: KFF Health News' “Doctor Lands in the Doghouse After Giving Covid Vaccine Waivers Too Freely,” by Brett KelmanRachel Cohrs: ProPublica's “How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients? No One Knows,” by Robin Fields, and Stat's “How UnitedHealth's Acquisition of a Popular Medicare Advantage Algorithm Sparked Internal Dissent Over Denied Care,” by Casey Ross and Bob HermanAmy Goldstein: The New York Times' “Medicare Advantage Plans Offer Few Psychiatrists,” by Reed AbelsonAlice Miranda Ollstein: The Wall Street Journal's “America Is Wrapped in Miles of Toxic Lead Cables,” by Susan Pulliam, Shalini Ramachandran, John West, Coulter Jones, and Thomas Gryta Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

P.M. Edition for July 12. The rate of inflation has cooled to its slowest pace in more than two years. But, it is still above the Federal Reserve's target 2%—meaning the central bank is likely to raise rates again later this month. Plus, WSJ investigative reporter Shalini Ramachandran discusses the findings of our investigation into what telecom companies knew about toxic lead-sheathed cables in their networks. Annmarie Fertoli reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scholastic, which is famous for children's books like Harry Potter and Clifford the Big Red Dog, has been controlled by the same family for more than a century. Then, the CEO unexpectedly died in June and his will had a controversial decision on succession. WSJ's Shalini Ramachandran on the drama that unfolded.

In Episode 2 of Series 6 Attorney Dominique Day, founder and Executive Director of the Daylight Collective which seeks to fill the space between the status quo and substantive justice with creativity, diverse voices, and multi-sector approaches and understandings talks to Todd about how COVID is negatively and unequally impacting the lives and human rights of Black Americans of African descent. 00.00 – 02.20 Todd begins by asking Dominique to comment on the dis-proportionate impact of the Covid19 pandemic on people of African descent. She points to significant racial disparities in terms of: Who becomes infected Who has access to health care Differences in outcomes in terms of severe illness and death This is seen as an outcome of policies, which exemplify systemic racism at a global and local level. 02.20 – 05.30 Todd asks Dominique which factors she sees as playing a key role in the impact of the Covid19 pandemic.  Whilst racism is not intentional she sees it as being ingrained into the presumptions and actions of individual decision makers In emergency departments this translates to medical bias when doctors are working under stress As evidence she points to research which suggests that medical bias disadvantages people of African descent (and which she discusses in a related webinar) Although the data is widely known her concern is that the issue of systemic racism is embedded in decision making even at the level of the individual clinician 05.30 – 12.40 Todd summarises and points out that the reality is that people of African descent in the USA have a markedly higher mortality rate, which is linked to a long history of systemic racism. Dominque points to “social conditioning” in deciding which lives matter. By way of example she points to the decision to withhold the distribution of the Pfizer vaccine on the African continent and argues that it suggests that this is a decision made along the lines of race In terms of the impact of the pandemic, there are parallels within the fields of education, the economy and health where individuals make decisions on the basis of a bias which reflects systemic racism within society She references an email circulated within NYU hospital in New York where the onus to make rapid life and death decisions was placed on doctors working in the emergency department, without supervision and review. Given the intense stress doctors were under, those decisions were more likely to be influenced by bias (unwitting or not)  Health care providers showed no willingness to discuss the research data, predicting the disproportionate impact on black and brown communities identifying systemic racial bias  individual doctors were prevented from commenting publicly Warnings of racial bias were ignored and continue to be ignored 12.40 – 20.50 Todd moves on to examine differences of outcomes for black and white communities in relation to encounters with the police and references the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson a suburb of St Louis in the US in 2014. The Ferguson killing follows a common pattern of outcomes for the black community A parallel is suggested with respect to the security preparations made for the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 in Washington Comparisons have been made between this protest and the insurrection staged by pro- Trump militants. Todd argues that any move to suggest the two events were similar creates a false equivalence Dominique points out that: In terms of policing there was a higher level of perceived threat and a heavier response during the Black Lives Matter protests than for the recent march on the Capitol in Washington Dominique argues that the former was a racialised response conditioned by acceptance of white supremacy and a long history (in the USA) rooted in slavery and exploitation. She references the origins of racial policing in the USA as being to protect property from the actions of slaves. She identifies a “legacy mindset”, a baseline of white supremacy, where white people expect to be treated differently (better) than black people, a mindset which is a major barrier to progressing racial justice and equality. 20.50 – 23.45 The conversation returns to the pandemic and vaccination programs in the USA. Dominique has a number of concerns. Distribution is a major issue More thought needs to be given in terms of prioritising who gets the vaccine first. The role of essential workers, drivers, home helpers who have been disproportionately infected needs to be acknowledged when prioritising vaccination programs. There is also a need to talk about racial equity in the delivery of vaccination programs 23.45 – 26.00 Todd asks why significant numbers of African Americans are resistant to taking the vaccine. In Dominique's view there is a distrust in black communities which in part dates back to the infamous Tuskegee experiment, where black people were exploited in the name of medical science In order to increase the uptake of the vaccine in black communities their must first be an understanding that there is a legitimated scepticism based on historical fact 26.00 - end Todd ends by asking Dominique what she is hoping to see from the new government administration in terms of the issues she has discussed in this episode. In terms of the response to the Covid19 pandemic, she would like to see a critical re-evaluation of responses to the pandemic, and in particular the role of systemic racism and its impact on African American communities. Useful links Racial Bias in the time of Covid19, the Time is Now  A webinar hosted by Dominique Day Millions of black people affected by racial bias in healthcare alogorithms Heidi Ledford in Nature October 2019 NYU Langone tells doctors, “Think more critically” about who gets ventilators Shalini Ramachandran and Joe Palazollo in Wall Street Journal 31/03/ 2020 40 years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study Ada McVean, McGill University, January 2019 Additional references Assessing differential impacts of COVID-19 on black communities; Gregorio Millet et al, Annals of Epidemiology, July 2020 Implicit Bias in ED overcrowding, is there a connection? Loner and Rotolli i EM Resident October 2018 The effect of race and sex on recommendations for cardiac catheterization Schulman Berlin et al, New England Journal of Medicine February 1999 Implicit racial/ethnic bias among health care professionals and its influence on health-care outcomes: a systematic review  Chapman et al, Journal of Public Medicine December 201  

Melanie, Zack, and Chris unpack why the United States has failed to contain the novel coronavirus. Most blame poor leadership in the United States — from the White House to public health officials and down to key figures in the media during the earliest stages of the disease. A more focused effort, sooner, as was implemented in many other developed countries, might have worked. But some see a deeper problem — American exceptionalism, especially an unwillingness to learn from the others’ approaches. If the United States does not turn things around soon, and demonstrate its capacity for solving the pandemic, will U.S. allies and partners be as willing to follow its leadership on a range of other problems? What will be the lasting effects of COVID-19 on the global order, and America’s place in it? Grievances are aired for Tucker Carlson, the House Armed Service Committee, and the Russians — and the Americans who excuse or ignore their behavior. Zack praises the Washington professional football team for its impending name change, and Chris praises the House and Senate Armed Services Committees for planning to do the same for U.S. military bases. Melanie gives a shout out to the Australians for a serious defense strategy and offers warm and heartfelt congratulations to her niece Kaylee for getting accepted to a top medical school — and to her mom (Melanie’s sister) for helping to set up her three daughters for success.   Links   Jeremy Konyndyk, “Exceptionalism Is Killing Americans: An Insular Political Culture Failed the Test of the Pandemic,” Foreign Affairs, June 8, 2020 Farhad Manjoo, “The World Builds a Wall to Keep America Out,” New York Times, July 1, 2020 Rebecca Kheel, “House Panel Approves $740.5B Defense Policy Bill,” The Hill, July 1, 2020 Jeff Cox, “The Coronavirus Will Cost the Economy Nearly $8 Trillion, Congressional Budget Office Says,” CNBC, July 1, 2020 Rebecca Kheel, “House Armed Services Votes to Make Pentagon Rename Confederate-Named Bases in a Year,” The Hill, July 1, 2020 Sam LaGrone, “Senate Bill to Purge Confederate Names from U.S. Military Could Affect Two Navy Ships,” USNI News, June 12, 2020 “Challenging Convention: Charting a New Course for the New American Engagement Initiative,” Atlantic Council, July 9, 2020 James Fallows, "The Three Weeks that Changed Everything," The Atlantic, June 29, 2020 Stephen Grey, Andrew Macaskill, Ryan McNeill, Steve Stecklow, and Tommy Wilkes, "Into the Fog: How Britain Lost Track of the Coronavirus," Reuters, June 29, 2020 Shalini Ramachandran, Laura Kusisto, and Katie Honan, "How New York's Coronavirus Response Made the Pandemic Worse," Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2020 Chloe Taylor, "Belgium Had the Worst Response to the Coronavirus Crisis among OECD Countries, EIU Says," CNBC, June 17, 2020 Eric A. Feldman, "Did Japan's Lenient Lockdown Conquer the Cornavirus?", The Reg Review, June 10, 2020 William Sposato, "Japan's Halfhearted Coronavirus Measures are Working Anyway," Foreign Policy, May 14, 2020 Lance Williams et al, "California Halted Reserve of Ventilators, Masks, Mobile Hospitals," Reveal News, March 27, 2020 Megan Molteni, "How Masks Went from Don't Wear to Must Have," Wired, July 2, 2020 Paul Krugman, "How America Lost the War on Covid-19," New York Times, July 6, 2020 Kyle Mizokami, "The Air Force Names Its New Jet After the Tuskegee Airmen," Popular Mechanics, September 19, 2019 Charlie Savage, Mujib Mashal, Rukmini Callimachi, Eric Schmitt, and Adam Goldman, "Suspicions of Russian Bounties Were Bolstered by Data on Financial Transfers," New York Times, June 30, 2020 Arizona State University, "The Pandemic Dialogues: Great Power Competition and the Case of China"

As several states face new outbreaks of coronavirus, WSJ's Shalini Ramachandran looks back at what went wrong with the response in one of the virus's first epicenters - New York City.

Americans are spending more money on faster internet speeds on the promise of faster load times and higher quality streaming, but is it really worth it?  Recent tests by the WSJ show that a typical household doesn't use most of their bandwidth while streaming and only get marginal gains from upgrading your speed.  Shalini Ramachandran, reporter for the WSJ joins us for why upgrading your bandwidth might not be the best choice. Next, after so many recent mass shootings, the business of everyday ballistic gear is booming. Companies are selling bulletproof backpacks, clipboards, and more.  The key demographic for these products are parents with kids.  But how effective are these products in protecting your kids from gunfire?  Abha Bhattarai, national retail reporter for the Washington Post, joins us for more. Finally, Facebook is making good on its promise to let you see all of the info they have collected about you from other websites.  The new tool called, Off-Facebook Activity, will let you see what they know about you from your browsing history and give you the option of clearing it, but not deleting it completely. Ryan Mac, senior tech reporter at BuzzFeed News, joins us for what this new tool is all about. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

David, Joanna and Christopher talk about the bizarre non-launch and Joanna's non-review of the Samsung Galaxy Fold, and what it means for the future of foldable phones. Then, WSJ reporter Shalini Ramachandran comes on to talk about her story on how Netflix and other streaming services are putting a serious dent into peoples' sex lives. In this week's Today I Learned, Christopher explains why nobody believes Elon Musk's statements about robot taxis and fancy new chips. Finally, David interviews Oleg Stavitsky, the CEO of a company called Endel that makes algorithmically-generated soundtracks for your life, about how a computer can learn to make music and whether every aspiring rock star should be nervous.

Like Roger Corman’s A BUCKET OF BLOOD, the new Netflix release VELVET BUZZSAW, director Dan Gilroy’s follow-up to NIGHTCRAWLER, presents as an art-world satire wrapped around the bones of a horror movie, though it doesn’t deliver on the horror element until pretty deep into the film. We talk over whether that approach is a benefit or detriment to both sides of the horror-satire equation, and about whether Netflix’s current content model is a natural evolution of the “give ‘em what they want” strategy that guided Corman’s American International Pictures. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about BUCKET OF BLOOD, VELVET BUZZSAW, or anything else in the world of film by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730.. Your Next Picture Show: • Scott: Steven Soderbergh’s HIGH FLYING BIRD • Keith: Samuel Fuller’s 40 GUNS • Tasha: Chiwetel Ejiofor’s THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND, and “At Netflix Who Wins When It’s Hollywood Vs. The Algorithm?,” by Shalini Ramachandran and Joe Flint (wsj.com) Outro Music: Talking Heads, “Artists Only” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 7 of the Sports Media podcast with Richard Deitsch features a conversation on ESPN’s present and future with Sports Business Daily media writer John Ourand and a roundtable with Boston Globe media writer Chad Finn, and Robert Littal, the founder and editor of Black Sports Online. In this podcast, Ourand discusses Wall Street Journal reporter Shalini Ramachandran’s examination of ESPN’s current business, the tension between Disney Chairman Robert Iger and former ESPN president John Skipper; whether ESPN’s front-facing talent has been given too much leeway on issues of politics and social justice; how the piece examined Skipper’s regime; the concern ESPN execs have on political talk; where Ourand stands on the money spent for NBA rights; the declines of other networks in number of households; ESPN’s potential interest in hockey; whether debate is in decline and what Ourand thinks of the upcoming ESPN show, High Noon and a long discussion on ESPN re-hiring of Keith Olbermann. Finn and Littal discuss the NFL’s new national anthem policy, the differences between the NFL’s and NBA approach to the issue; ESPN’s acquisition of Fox’s UFC package; the deal Fox cut for WWE’s Smackdown; why media keeps doing LeBron vs. Jordan; how the NBA will deal when LeBron leaves the games; and much more.   You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more.

Preethi chats with Shalini Ramachandran, a Working Mom, RJ of a Bay Area radio station & famously the Admin of FB group Euphoric Delights