FLSP
Activating impact through corporate sustainability.
Los Angeles, Miami & Hong Kong
FLSP
Activating impact through corporate sustainability.
Los Angeles, Miami & Hong Kong
Activating impact through corporate sustainability.
Los Angeles, Miami & Hong Kong
Activating impact through corporate sustainability.
Los Angeles, Miami & Hong Kong
FLSP offers professional publishing services, news reporting, digital networking and multimedia production services to private, public and nonprofit organizations.
FLSP provides management consulting services in corporate social responsibility (CSR), integrated reporting, data & analysis as well as sustainability auditing & assurance (ESG).
FLSP develops and promotes global talent across diverse markets including health and higher education through its unique, interactive advertising subsidiary: Father Agent.
MIAMI— Hurricane Irma, one of the most devastating storms to hit the state of Florida, revealed an important thing about the future of news: Digital tools enable the legacy press (as a First Amendment institution) to melt while simultaneously empowering citizens and reinventing democracy (but not their business model).
With a hollowing out of seniority within newsrooms amid the recent U.S. financial crisis, the quality of national discourse, especially on television, has plummeted during the last 10 years. Industry novices, pundits and duopoly politicians appear around-the-clock to maintain the status quo. In other words, there has been a professional decapitation (deforestation) of the national press corps through an unholy convergence of competitiveness theory and technological disruption.
However, the emergence of a modern, nonprofit news industry has roots in the tradition of editorial independence; a time when reporting was not beholden to management, advertising and online popularity. Local communities that were once the source and focus of reporting coverage are actually a potential new landscape of embedded citizenship factories deepening democratization through digital connections.
Citizenship isn’t voyeurism. Reporting isn’t an office job. The corporate concentration of a hierarchial, profit-driven media headquartered in New York City has usurped the modern capacity of citizens trapped in this Matrix to remain impactful. Digital tools give back that capacity.
Every economic unit is now a media organization. The rise of interactivity as a new medium of exchange enables direct connections between global supply and demand. This modern market cuts out the middle where many business models lived in the 20th Century.
To embrace digital evolution, legacy news organizations must not only reinvent their business models (on a nonprofit basis) but also reimagine their overall role as press. Legacy news networks based in New York City manufacture a virtual reality using current events and a cast of hand-picked reality tv characters chosen from connected circles within an establishment elite. Its function as infotainment ignores public interest, accountability and service.
Furthermore, in a 21st Century dominated by digital media, American freedoms of speech and press are no longer separate rights. They have converged in practice. To date, social media platforms like Twitter enable self-identified media to create ego-driven echo chambers for preaching to the choir instead of reinventing the institution to empower diverse, local and traditional audiences through measurable social impact. Traditional storytelling appears woefully archaic and insufficient when information and virtual connections are ubiquitous.
As a tool, social media embeds a new type of multidimensional reporting within communities enabling the creation of shared experiences. Distribution is no longer static at scale but becomes global, mobile and interactive. The act of sharing is the new medium of exchange for creating value-laden impact. Experience is local.
The 20th Century notion that a free press is the exclusive domain of “journalists” is dead. Reporting tools are everywhere, even if professional ethics are not. Pretending that the world of democracy is still flat won’t change reality. Corporate media is a captured business model dependent on profit and ratings. To claim that only legacy newspapers and cable news networks based in New York City are the true guardians of a free, independent press is a laughable interpretation. The First Amendment contains no such definition.
Thus, the reactionary drumbeat from legacy journalists that a free press is critical to democracy assumes a competitive landscape where reporters once broke actual news in the public interest and everyone was still on the same page.
Sadly, rampant speculation, duopoly media and public relations disguised as news have become the norm. Veteran journalists should recognize the dismal state of the profession before misrepresenting critical salvos on novice newsrooms and an outdated business model as attacks on a free press.
The First Amendment as an institution is much stronger than a traditional industry in decline. Until what’s left of the traditional U.S. press escapes from duopoly discourse and a sunken business model, it will continue its slow steady decline into oblivion.
Recent charges of "fake news" stem from New York-based media concentration, shallow editorial judgment, audience estrangement and ratings-driven punditry of novice newsrooms in the early 21st Century. Meanwhile, what's left of our modern, legacy press continues to reinvent itself out of existence with outdated assumptions.
But is there a bright side? Yes. The First Amendment won’t sink along with a tired way of informing the public. Journalism is a worldview, a universal skill set built on trust and credentials. The modern newsroom is not just a place somewhere in space. It's a social network of shared democratic values among individuals serving in a multitude of economic roles.
The 21st Century is no longer defined by the passive consumption of news and information. Interaction is the modern medium of human communication. Rights pertaining to speech and press have converged. This creates an economic environment where everyone is public media and can engage directly with global stakeholder audiences.
CSOSS 2021: Address by HRH to the 4th Annual CSO Summit & Symposium - 03/24/2021
PODCAST: Miami Herbert Huddle | Making The Big Shot With Kim Stone - 03/18/2021
WEBINAR: ESG Measurement and Disclosure Challenges - 10/23/20
CONFERENCE: ESG Challenges Facing Professional Accountants - 10/22-23/20
WEBINAR: ESG Data, Auditing & Transparency in the Digital Age - 12/10/2019
WEBINAR: Designing a Sustainable Business Program - 12/10/2019
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ARTICLE: The State v. Facebook - 03/27/2018
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COVER FEATURE: Q&A With Cover Model Attila Toth – 05/26/2015
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JMM108 - Writing For The Digital Age (Spring 2016)
JMM208 - Fundamentals Of Newsgathering (Spring 2016)
JMM108 - Writing For The Digital Age (Fall 2016)
JMM208 - Fundamentals Of Newsgathering (Fall 2016)
BUS499 - Special Topics (Spring 2017)
JMM533 - Social Media For Journalists (Spring 2017)
JMM633 - Social Media (Spring 2017)
JMM108 - Writing For The Digital Age (Fall 2017)
JMM533 - Social Media For Journalists (Fall 2017)
JMM633 - Social Media (Fall 2017)
BUS498 - Special Topics in Business Administration (Spring 2018)
ECS373 - Topics in Ecosystem Science (Spring 2018)
JMM533 - Social Media For Journalists (Spring 2018)
JMM633 - Social Media (Spring 2018)
JMM108 - Writing for the Digital Age (Fall 2018)
JMM533 - Social Media (Fall 2018)
JMM633 - Social Media (Fall 2018)
BUS204 - Intro to Corporate Sustainability (Spring 2019)
ECS373 - Topics in Ecosystem Science (Spring 2019)
JMM533 - Social Media (Spring 2019)
JMM633 - Social Media (Spring 2019)
BUS628 - Multidisciplinary Action Projects (Fall 2019)
JMM108 - Writing for the Digital Age (Fall 2019)
BUS204 - Intro to Corporate Sustainability (Spring 2020)
BUS628 - Multidisciplinary Action Projects (Spring 2020)
JMM285 - Applied Statistics for Journalism & Media Management (Spring 2020)
BUS628 - Multidisciplinary Action Projects (Fall 2020)
BUS628 - Multidisciplinary Action Projects (Fall 2020)
JMM108 - Writing for the Digital Age (Fall 2020)
BUS204 - Intro to Corporate Sustainability (Spring 2021)
BUS204 - Intro to Corporate Sustainability (Spring 2021)
BUS428 - Multidisciplinary Action Projects (Spring 2021)
BUS428 - Multidisciplinary Action Projects (Spring 2021)
BUS628 - Multidisciplinary Action Projects (Spring 2021)
ECO698 - Sustainable Media (Spring 2021)
Case Study: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PROJECT: Sustainable Fashion in South Florida
JMM592 - Sustainable Media (Spring 2021)
JMM692 - Sustainable Media (Spring 2021)
BUS204 - Introduction to Corporate Sustainability (Fall 2021)
BUS628 - Experiential Learning Projects (Fall 2021)
ECO496 - Directed Studies in Economics (Fall 2021)
ECO698 - Sustainable & Social Media Management (Fall 2021)
JMM108 - Writing for the Digital Age (Fall 2021)
JMM592 - Sustainable & Social Media Management (Fall 2021)
JMM692 - Sustainable & Social Media Management (Fall 2021)
BUS204 - Introduction to Corporate Sustainability (Spring 2022)
BUS428 - Experiential Learning Projects (Undergraduate, Spring 2022)
BUS628 - Experiential Learning Projects (Graduate, Spring 2022)
ECO698 - Sustainable & Social Media Management (Spring 2022)
JMM592 - Sustainable & Social Media Management (Spring 2022)
JMM692 - Sustainable & Social Media Management (Spring 2022)
JMM433 - Social Media Management for Journalists (Spring 2022)
JMM633 - Social Media Management for Journalists (Spring 2022)
American Red Cross
American Tower Corp
Atlantic Sapphire
AutoNation
Azzad Asset Management
Bacardi
BankTrack
Boardwalk Capital Management
Brickell Energy
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Climate Disclosure Standards Board
Coalition for Green Capital
Companies vs Climate Change
Conscious Capitalism
Deutsche Welle
E3G
Eaton Vance (Morgan Stanley)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
GFG Capital
Global Impact Investing Network
Global Reporting Initiative
Goldman Sachs
Government Offices of Sweden
Green Investment Group
Global Green Growth Institute
Greenpeace USA
Green Sports Alliance
Hertz
International Energy Agency
International Federation of Accountants
International Integrated Reporting Council
International Society of Sustainability Professionals
Iroquois Valley Farms, Inc.
Itáu Unibanco
KPMG
Lloyd Crescendo Advisors
Lockheed Martin
Mastercard
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Mongabay.com
ODP Corporation
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)
Principles for Responsible Investment
Public Banking Institute
S&P Global
Siemens
Southern Glazer Wine & Spirits
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
Sustainability Curriculum Consortium
Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI)
Sustainalytics
TradePro / Solupac
UNEP, Finance Initiative
University of Miami, Miami Herbert Business School
University of Miami, School of Communication
U.S. Sustainable Investment Forum
W5 Group
Waste Management
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
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