Chapter 411

Everyone at the meeting left the 58th floor with an excited and excited expression on their faces. The new boss's ideas and courage, momentum and determination, his generous encouragement and recognition of Newsweek undoubtedly inspired the group of newspaper executives who had worked for more than ten years.

People are most afraid of not having the motivation and goal to move forward, because that will make them sink slowly, especially when there is no hope.

Andy's appearance undoubtedly let the management of the newspaper see the future. They are very busy with their careers and full of feelings for the newspaper. They don't want to see it sink and die. Now, everything will be OK and ready to pack up again.

Different from the excited and jubilant subordinates, Andy, sitting alone in the luxurious and spacious office, fell into deep meditation.

Andy is worried about the house of cards. His identity background will make the novel get more attention. The grandfather of the party whip, the father of the house of Representatives, how do you think dunima has the meaning of mapping in it? Moreover, the readers' brain holes are very powerful, and they can never support the association of interested people, even if the story is completely fictitious.

Well, just 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 the British politics.

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After half an hour of Andy's high-speed introduction, old Smith took off his glasses and gently rubbed his nose. After a while of silence, he whispered to the hands-free phone on his desk, "don't worry about any mapping or influence. To be honest, I'd like to see the novel you're talking about now. You want to write an American contemporary political textbook, I am most worried about whether your strokes can support the whole story! "

Indeed, if Andy is just a writer in the ordinary sense, it's necessary for old Smith to worry. Sometimes, if he lacks life experience and professional knowledge, it's really difficult to write a novel just by imagination.

But after all, Andy is not an ordinary person. All he has to do is to go through his own reprocessing to turn a TV play into a novel. It's not difficult for him to write.

"Don't worry, Grandpa. When I'm finished, I'll send you an email to have a look. If there's any problem, I'll revise it later."

"Well, I'll see."

Andy hung up the phone, with a relaxed smile on his face. He was amused to think of the kind of chuckle grandpa made when he affirmed the identity of the protagonist's donkey party.

After looking at the next time, the goal of returning to stabilize the military heart has been completed, and the next work does not need to worry too much. As for the issue of layoff, it needs to wait until the CEO arrives to discuss with Jon.

By the time he got home, Ivana had set up lunch with the maid and waited for him.

Andy hugs Ivana's waist, kisses her on the face, takes off the suit and hands it to her, unbuttons the shirt cufflinks, rolls up the sleeves and walks to the bathroom.

"Is everything going well, my dear?" Ivana leaned against the door of the bathroom, looked at Andy, who was washing his hands and face, and asked with concern.

"It's very smooth. What I want is a smooth transition, not turbulence. At present, what can cause turbulence is nothing more than a large-scale layoff. I go in the morning to dispel the concerns of employees..."

Ivana nodded and agreed. As an executive vice president of a real estate group, she naturally understood this. Holding Andy's arm, Ivana walked into the restaurant and began to have lunch.

After lunch, Ivana was lying on the sofa, yawning lazily, looking at her boyfriend, who was typing on a notebook and focused on her desk not far away.

Pick up the remote control, turn off the TV, get up from the sofa, Shi ran walks behind Andy, hugs him from behind, presses his chin on his shoulder, looks at the dense letters on the notebook screen, and curiously asks, "new novel?"

"Well, a political novel for Newsweek," house of cards. " Andy recovers from his supernatural state when Ivana holds him and stops typing his hands.

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

Andy looks at Ivana, who put down his coffee and walked back to his bedroom. He can't help laughing. These days, he has tossed her so hard. In addition to preparing the dinner party, he is sure that he is tired. It seems that he is a little too much. Cough.

As for the problem of restoring the novel of "house of cards" TV play, he is already familiar with it, and has no difficulty. Sometimes he feels that he has become Jin Yong. Using the novel serials to support the sales volume of the newspaper is really a copycat.

In the next few days, Andy found an excellent CEO for Newsweek through the headhunting company. Frank Gehry, the former executive vice president of Chicago forum newspaper company, was able to recruit the vice president of such a large newspaper industry. He had to say that the Chicago forum newspaper was also involved in the acquisition, but after listening to Frank Gehry.

Andy shakes his head and laughs. He finally understands why he left the Chicago Tribune. It's not that he didn't have his position after the acquisition, but this acquisition, which seems huge and involves 8.3 billion US dollars. In fact, the financier who wants to acquire the Chicago Tribune Company just has less than 400 million US dollars. All the other acquisition funds come from debt financing.When Frank Gehry learned that the other side was going to use the "highly leveraged financial operation and employee stock option plan" to buy BBS, and the board of directors of the company also agreed, he resolutely decided to change his job, because he knows more than anyone how deep the fund gap of BBS is, with a debt of 12 billion. NIMA, now comes a real estate developer who wants to speculate. It's a matter of fact No future.

After Andy heard about the way of acquisition and the career of the gold owner, he knew that the 160 year old newspaper giant of Chicago forum newspaper was finished.

"Believe me, frank, you will be absolutely proud of the decision you made today!"

Frank Gehry doesn't understand why his new boss said that, but since he chose to leave, he won't regret it.

Jingying talents, who belong to the media industry and have rich experience in the management of large-scale newspapers, soon came up with a layoff plan with the management of Jon Mitcham and other newspapers, involving 31 branches, and listed the institutions with financial problems that are under investigation and are ready to be investigated separately.

The plan was put into Andy's hands and soon passed. It was put into practice. However, for some old Newsweek employees, Andy didn't choose to give them a little severance compensation and directly dismissed them. Instead, he transferred them to the daily office in preparation.

Pitkaplan doesn't have much opinion on this. First of all, it's the decision of the big boss. The second group has rich publishing experience after all. Moreover, the daily newspaper was originally integrated from several regional newspapers, and the staff composition was originally complex. Now a group of new people are joined, so it's better to disrupt all of them, which is conducive to the distribution and integration of personnel.

All works are in an orderly way, and Andy's restoration of the novel "house of cards" is also very smooth, the first eight episodes of the first season have been written.

After being approved by his grandfather Smith, he gave it to Jon Mitcham, which immediately made Jon excited. After all, this novel is really a very classic, cold and depressing, and a completely critical realism style.

"Boss, your novel just opens a window for people to imagine power. Through the window, they can see the little-known but important Washington, and imagine the dark side of human nature in the cruel struggle and interest tangle at the top of power. It's amazing. I've seen how people like and admire this novel, genius, Boss, you are really a genius! "

Andy is not very happy about Jon Mitcham's praise. It's not because he listens more and sees more, but because he's in a bad mood. As for why, ha ha, his backyard is on fire.