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Film Reporter at Bloomberg 🎬🍿 tbuckley25 @bloomberg .net

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5 years
If Barnes & Noble collapses, bookshops cease to exist. Bookselling will be entirely dominated by Amazon, and some supermarkets. CEO James Daunt is fighting to avoid that fate - with a little help from the world's most ruthless hedge fund. Our @BW feature:
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Pixar, the beloved animation studio behind Toy Story and Up, ended a near-perfect track record by betting on Lightyear and Disney+. Its strategy to recapture audiences is riding on the performance of Inside Out 2, in cinemas June 14. Our @BW cover story:
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Walmart's annual sales soared to more than $500 billion last year. The Walton family's fortune rose to $250 billion. Walmart still refuses to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour despite some of its employees surviving on food stamps. My @BW story:
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4 years
In the wake of global protests, many employers stumbled as they tried to decry systemic racism and stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. Ben & Jerry's call to dismantle White supremacy showed them how it's done. @BW cover story w/ @JordynJournals :
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3 years
Introducing the Pret Index! Bloomberg's tracking the reopening of the UK economy in real time using weekly Pret A Manger sales data in clusters such as London's West End, the City, airports, suburbs, rail stations and more:
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In 2010, the Genesis II Church began selling bleach as Miracle Mineral Solution claiming it cured 95% of diseases. Last year, sales tripled and deaths rose after the church claimed MMS cured Covid-19. Then, Operation Quack Hack busted the archbishops. @BW :
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3 years
And... Action! A change for me at Bloomberg: I'm thrilled, thrilled, thrilled to be joining @Lucas_Shaw 's talented team in Los Angeles covering the business of Hollywood. I'll miss my friends and mentors in the London newsroom but I'm so excited for the next chapter. Onwards! 🍿
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Thomas Buckley
4 years
Anti-vaxxers have infested social media with pseudoscience, exploiting rabbit-hole algorithms to spread deadly misinformation. @ZDoggMD says a cavalry of counterprogramming doctors and nurses is coming after them. My feature for the @BW Vaccines Issue:
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Thomas Buckley
2 years
Over half of men have beards. Over two-thirds of millennial men have beards. After a decade in existential crisis, Gillette, the world's largest shaving company, is finally reinventing itself to ride the trend. For this week's @BW :
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2 years
In 2021, I wrote a story for @BW on Genesis II, a cult whose leaders poisoned disciples with bleach that they said could cure all diseases. @kristenvbrown , @neonhummedia and @SonyPodcasts have produced a fantastic podcast based on our reporting, out today:
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1 year
Barbie is one of the world's most famous creations. With help from Greta Gerwig, Mattel aims to build the iconic doll into a Hollywood blockbuster. Next up are Barney, Hot Wheels, Polly Pocket and a dozen more brands. @BW cover story with @KellyGilblom
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Dungeons & Dragons breaks into Hollywood and opens in thousands of cinemas tomorrow. For this week's @BW cover story @felixgillette and I wrote about D&D's highs, lows, and its future in the hands of one of the game's biggest fans, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks:
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In 2013, Barilla made comments that were condemned as homophobic. My @BW feature on the pasta empire's diversity work thereafter delves into a deeper issue in Italy, where 1 in 10 gay men, women and transgender people consider suicide due to persecution:
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Every day, the golden arches feed about 1% of the human population. The amount of data it's able to gather in the process has CEO Steve Easterbrook obsessed with turning McDonald's into the Amazon of excess sodium. Our @BW cover story:
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4 years
@alanjope @VisitScotland @isleofislay Has to be Caol Ila and Lagavulin! 🥃
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Businessweek's annual jealousy list is one of its best traditions. For the 2019 take, I suggested @arax_mark 's staggering investigation for The California Sunday Magazine on PG&E's history of setting the state aflame
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