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Amara Okonkwo

Streaming, advertising and digital platforms are Amara Okonkwo's way into the wider conversation about culture and power. She leads media-business coverage and world reporting, edits religion-in-culture coverage, writes on supporter culture in football, and tests e-readers and tablets over weeks of daily reading.

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Independent editorial contributor covering the media business, digital platforms, culture and international affairs.

Articles by Amara Okonkwo

Chart of weekly initial claims with four-week average and threshold band

Why economists worship a boring weekly number

Amara Okonkwo

Business owner signing documents across a table from advisors

Middle-market M&A runs the economy's quietest trillions

Amara Okonkwo

Chart of annual S&P 500 buybacks and dividends near record highs

Buybacks and dividends stayed huge — and stopped being the scandal

Amara Okonkwo

Infographic of monitoring data layers from badges to AI inference scores

AI employee monitoring grew faster than any law covering it

Amara Okonkwo

Employee eating a salad at a desk beside two monitors

The lunch break quietly disappeared while nobody was counting

Amara Okonkwo