bits and bobs

20210403 Saturday

Hybe, BTS’s label, which was formerly known as Big Hit Entertainment, announced on Friday it was buying Ithaca, the holding company of the US impresario Scooter Braun.

Impresario 興行主

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/02/bts-korean-record-label-buys-justin-bieber-management-company?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

inertia /ɪnˈɚːʃə/ 怠惰

Lucrative profitable 有利

Many publications folded over the course of the 20th century, but once a city was down to one or two papers, publishing was a very lucrative and stable business. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/digital-news-industry-was-built-lies/618490/

ham fisted = ham handed 不器用な

Pink slips 解雇通知

Staffers 職員

The brass handled the layoffs in a particularly ham-fisted way, but no amount of finesse would have made so many pink slips any less brutal to the staffers.