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I call myself an accidental author. It was never my ambition to produce a book.

I was 17 years old and a guppy reporter for The Bradenton Herald when my editor sent me on my first assignment in the field. “You’re going to interview Gloria Steinem,” she told me. It was 1978 and the normally gruff woman boss I worked for was as strong and courageous as any that would follow.

Health insurance stocks took a dive Tuesday, with the S&P Health Care Sector index becoming the worst-performing segment of the S&P 500, largely because of health insurance companies. That followed a public declaration of war by the health insurance industry’s lobbying arm against the White House’s health care reform efforts.

Publisher’s Weekly recently reported the results of a survey that asked 840 international publishers how they’d most like to offer up digital content. The survey revealed: Charging readers a flat rate that would allow them access to all of a information provider’s online content similar to a traditional subscription model was favored by 25% of respondents, especially those from Europe. Paying for snippets of content through micropayments was favored by 23%, with that method backed the most in Great Britain and the U.S

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. One in five children are homeless at a public school in Brooklyn, New York, reports Meredith Kolodner of the New York Daily News . Most of these kids live at one of ten nearby shelters

Bloomberg LP has agreed to acquire BusinessWeek from McGraw-Hill, the company announced Tuesday. The terms of the sale were not disclosed. Bloomberg has been the frontrunner to take over the magazine for several weeks