Everyone at the meeting, everyone left the 58th floor with excitement and excitement on their faces, and the new boss's philosophy and courage, momentum and determination, the new boss's impassioned encouragement and recognition of Newsweek undoubtedly made this group of newspaper executives who have worked hard for more than ten years feel extremely excited. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

What people are most afraid of is that they have no motivation and goal to move forward, because that will make them sink slowly, especially when the road ahead is bleak and there is no hope.

Andy's appearance undoubtedly made the management of the newspaper see the future, they are extremely lively about their profession, full of affection for the newspaper, do not want to see it sink away, now that everything will be fine, they can pack their bags and get ready for the road.

Unlike his subordinates, who were excited and happy, Andy, who sat alone in a luxurious and spacious office, fell into deep thought.

For "House of Cards", Andy has concerns, his identity background will make this novel attract much attention, the grandfather of the party whip, the father of the House of Representatives, how to look at Du Nima with the meaning of mapping in it, and the readers' brains are very powerful, and they can never stand up to the associations of those who have a heart, even if the story is completely fictional.

Forget it, just give a call and ask, if it really has an impact on the family, then move the story to the UK, anyway, the first version of the previous life is about British politics.

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In half an hour, under Andy's high-speed introduction, old Smith took off his glasses, rubbed the bridge of his nose lightly, and after being silent for a while, he said in a deep voice on the hands-free phone on the desk: "Don't worry about any mapping or impact, to be honest, I also want to see this novel in your mouth now, you want to write a textbook on contemporary American politics, what I'm most worried about is whether your pen can support the whole story!"

Indeed, if Andy is just a writer in the ordinary sense, Smith Sr.'s concerns are very necessary, and sometimes it is really difficult to write a novel by imagination without life experience and professional knowledge.

But after all, Andy is not an ordinary person, all he has to do is to reprocess the TV series into a novel through his own reprocessing, and it is naturally not difficult for him to write or something.

"Don't worry, grandpa, when I finish writing, I'll send you an email to see if there's any problem, and I'll revise it when the time comes." ”

"Well, I'll see... ”

Andy hung up the phone, with a relaxed smile on his face, and couldn't help but feel amused when he thought of the chuckle when his grandfather affirmed the identity of the protagonist's donkey party.

After looking at the time, the purpose of rushing back this time to stabilize the morale of the army has been completed, and there is no need to worry too much about the next work, about the issue of layoffs, this needs to wait until the CEO arrives and discuss it with Jon.

By the time he got home, Ivana had already put lunch on the table with the maid and was waiting for him.

Andy put his arm around Ivana's waist, kissed her on the cheek, took off his suit and handed it to her, unbuttoning his shirt cufflinks, rolling up his sleeves, and walking to the bathroom.

"Honey, is everything going well?" Ivana asked with concern as she leaned against the door of the bathroom, looked at Andy, who was washing her hands and face.

"It's going well, I want a smooth transition, not turmoil, and the only thing that can cause turmoil at the moment is to carry out mass layoffs, and I went in the morning to dispel the concerns of employees... ”

Ivana nodded in agreement, as the executive vice president of a real estate group, she naturally understood this, took Andy's arm, and walked into the restaurant together to start lunch.

After lunch, Ivana lay on the couch, yawned lazily, and looked at her boyfriend who was intently typing on his notebook at a desk not far away.

Picked up the remote control, turned off the TV, got up from the sofa, Shi Shiran walked behind Andy, hugged him from behind, pressed his chin on his shoulder, looked at the dense letters on the notebook screen, and asked curiously, "New novel?"

"Well, a politically themed novel for Newsweek, House of Cards. Andy recovered from his supergod state as Ivana hugged him, and stopped typing with both hands.

"Oh, I'm going to be the first reader, you write, I'll pour you a cup of coffee, I'm going to take a nap, I'm feeling very tired... ”

Andy looked at Ivana, who put down the coffee for himself and walked back to the bedroom, couldn't help but smile, he had tossed her enough in the past few days, plus preparing for that dinner, the exhaustion was certain, it seemed that he was a little too much, cough cough.

For the problem of restoring novels in the "House of Cards" TV series, he is already familiar with the road, and there is no difficulty, sometimes he feels that he has become Jin Yong, and using novel serialization to support the sales of newspapers is simply a veritable copyist.

In the next few days, Andy found an excellent executive CEO for Newsweek through a headhunter, Frank Gehry, the former executive vice president of the Chicago Tribune, and the reason why he was able to recruit the vice president of this large newspaper was to say that the Chicago Tribune, which was also in the process of being acquired, but after listening to Frank Gehry's story.

Andy shook his head and smiled, and finally understood why he left the Chicago Tribune, not because there was no place for him after the acquisition, but that this acquisition seemed to be huge, involving $8.3 billion, but in fact, the owner of the Chicago Forum Company only came up with less than $400 million, and all the funds used in other acquisitions came from debt financing.

When Frank Gehry learned that the other party was going to use "financial operations with high leverage and employee stock subscription plans" to acquire Forum Corporation, and the company's board of directors agreed, he resolutely decided to jump ship, because he knew better than anyone how pitted the Tribune's funding gap was, with a debt of 12 billion, Nima, and now there is a real estate developer who wants to speculate, and he can't see the future at all.

After hearing about the acquisition method and the profession of the financier, Andy knew that the Chicago Tribune Company, a newspaper giant with a history of 160 years, was finished.

"Trust me, Frank, you'll be proud of the decision you've made today!"

Although Frank Gehry didn't understand why his new boss would say this, since he chose to leave, he naturally didn't regret it.

JING, WHO BELONGS TO THE MEDIA INDUSTRY AND HAS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN MANAGING LARGE NEWSPAPERS, SOON CAME UP WITH A LAYOFF PLAN WITH THE MANAGEMENT OF JON MICHAM AND OTHER NEWSPAPERS, INVOLVING 31 BRANCHES, AND MADE A SEPARATE LIST OF FINANCIALLY TROUBLED INSTITUTIONS THAT WERE BEING INVESTIGATED AND WERE PREPARING TO BE INVESTIGATED.

The plan was handed over to Andy, and it was quickly approved and implemented, but for some old employees of "Newsweek", Andy did not choose to give a little severance compensation and dismiss them directly, but transferred them to the daily newspaper that was under preparation.

Pete Kaplan doesn't have much of an opinion on this, first of all, this is the decision of the big boss, and secondly, the group of people transferred has rich publishing experience after all, and the daily newspaper is originally an integration of a number of regional newspapers, and the composition of the staff is already complicated, and now a group of new people have been added, so that all of them are disrupted, which is conducive to the distribution and integration of personnel.

The work is going on in an orderly manner, and Andy's restoration of the "House of Cards" novel is also very smooth, and the first 8 episodes of the first season have been written.

After getting the approval of his grandfather Smith Sr., he handed it over to Jon Meacham, which immediately made Jon excited and happy, after all, this novel is indeed a very classic, cold and depressing, and it is a complete critical realism style.

"Boss, your novel simply opens a window of power speculation for the people, through which they can peek into the little-known but pivotal Washington, and imagine the dark side of human nature in the brutal struggle and entanglement of interests at the pinnacle of power, it's simply amazing, I've seen how people like and pursue this novel, genius, boss, you really are a genius!"

Andy wasn't very happy with Jon Meacham's admiration, not because he heard and watched this kind of talk too much, but because he was in a bad mood right now, and as for why, hehe, because his backyard was on fire.