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Help is wanted at Six Flags, but will the park operator find it?

by Annie Baxter
Feb 22, 2017
Six Flags reports its quarterly earnings today. It’s one of the top five players in the amusement park industry, Disney being the biggest. The company is starting to hold job fairs for its busy summer season, but in today’s tightening labor market, hospitality companies could have trouble getting the workers they need. Click the above […]
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Disney looking to play the digital game as ESPN’s cable subscriptions decline

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Feb 7, 2017
Disney doesn’t appear to have plans in place for its future leadership yet, so there’s speculation that CEO Robert Iger may need to stick around beyond 2018 — the latest date he said he’d step down. The company has had trouble finding a replacement as the landscape of cable TV continues to change and cord […]
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With 'Rogue One' and more, how far can Disney stretch the 'Star Wars' franchise?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Dec 16, 2016
Disney paid $4 billion for the “Star Wars” franchise — and “Indiana Jones” — when it bought Lucasfilm.  It seems the movie studio is quite intent on getting its money’s worth.  The new movie “Rogue One” opens in theaters today — the first of two, possibly more, stand-alone “Star Wars” films that Disney has in […]
A view of a "Rogue One" panel at the London convention center ExCel.
Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images for Walt Disney Studios
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Disney is a hit movie-making machine lately, but the spotlight is dimming on ESPN

by Marielle Segarra
Nov 10, 2016
Disney reports its earnings later today.
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"Good ideas never die at Disney"

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Aug 29, 2016
Disney almost shut down in the 1940s, but they were also the studio's most creative time.
Sylvia Holland's concept painting for the "Pastoral Symphony" sequence in Fantasia.  
They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney’s Musical Years: The 1940s by Didier Ghez
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Finding his voice, one Disney character at a time

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 27, 2016
How Disney movies helped a boy with autism communicate
Owen Suskind, subject of the documentary "Life, Animated."
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Finally, Disney introduces a Latina princess

by Adriene Hill
Jul 21, 2016
"Elena of Avalor" premieres on the Disney Channel on Friday.
Disney is set to debut its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor.
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China's Disneyland: Big enough for its consumer class?

by Rob Schmitz
Jun 16, 2016
Long lines — some more than 4 hours — await visitors.
A Disneyland security guard tolerates visitors' curiosity as they peer through a hole to spy Shanghai's new Disneyland before it opens.
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Bringing magic to the Magic Kingdom after Bob Iger

by Adriene Hill
May 10, 2016
Analysts will be listening for Disney's plans to find a successor for CEO Bob Iger.
A company's success may make it difficult to find a successor.
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With no heir apparent for Bob Iger, who will run Disney?

by Tony Wagner
Apr 5, 2016
After decades of tough successions, the company might look outside for the first time.
The Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Bob Iger presents at the D23 EXPO in Anaheim, California in 2015.
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