A year after it pulled off a then-corporate record $17 billion bond sale, Apple's plans to raise a "similar" sum this year highlight strong investor demand for debt issued by highly rated companies.

Via Counterparties, a new study suggests that we now have a "superordinate" working class: highly paid professionals who are so dedicated to their professions that they'd rather work in the office than engage in leisure or vacation time:

In my previous post, I argued that established, traditional newsrooms tend to be most comfortable accepting citizen reporting or user-generated content during a large-scale, widespread emergency event. In these circumstances, newsrooms often accept photo and video submissions from the public, or even seek them out on Instagram, Vine or Twitter. Professional journalists or editors may curate tweets or blog posts to summarize the experience of citizens. They may also make a public request for input from those affected, or to clarify incoming information.

Last September, Gideon Lichfield wrote a post on a new phenomenology of news he wanted to try with Quartz. The thrust of it: No more beats -- Quartz would have "obsessions" that it would cover...obsessively. The reason:

"Beats aren't so much an objective taxonomy as a convenient management tool devised for an old technology...So instead of fixed beats, we structure our newsroom around an ever-evolving collection of phenomena -- the patterns, trends and seismic shifts that are shaping the world our readers live in." [emphasis added]

This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Northwestern University Knight Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog as part of a series of Q&As with highly impressive makers and strategists from media and its fringes, each with unique perspectives on journalism, publishing and communications technology. Catch up and/or follow the series here.