From restaurants to bike stores, businesses alter their plans
By Christine Cataldi, Andrew Littell and Frank Silverstein
Now, more than ever, it’s imperative for small businesses to be flexible and make radical changes to survive.
Just ask Ed Brown, owner of Manhattan’s “81.” He says he’s seen a decline in the number of customers at his high-end restaurant. [...]
By Howard Kurtz
Fox Nation, an opinionated site that launches this morning — and really, what other network would name a country after itself? — is based on a gut-level appeal:
“It’s Time to Say NO to Biased Media and Say YES to Fair Play and Free Speech.”
Biased media are in the eye of the beholder, and [...]
Autoworkers say Obama’s ‘tough love’ more tough than love, they get worse treatment than banks
By Jeff Karoub
Many assembly line autoworkers reacted with skepticism and anger Monday to the Obama administration’s tough tactics, which stoked long-simmering feelings that the people who put the country on wheels get treated differently than the wizards of Wall Street.
“It’s the [...]
By Jennifer Harper
Online journalists have become cautiously optimistic about their place in the gloomy news media landscape, with 81 percent reasonably sure their Web sites can turn a profit, according to a survey released Monday by the Online News Association and the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
“They appear confident there will be a shake out [...]
An avant-garde play revives an ancient hatred.
By BRET STEPHENS
Here’s a sketch for a racist play about “moral decline” in black America since the civil rights era.
Act I: Heroic protestors gather at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in 1965 to march in defiance of a segregationist state. Act II: The scene moves to San [...]
By MONICA LANGLEY and NEAL E. BOUDETTE
Inside a windowless, ornate room Thursday just across from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama and a group of senior economic advisers began the job of remaking the American automobile industry.
The first order of business: Oust General Motors Corp. Chief Executive Rick Wagoner.
It “wasn’t the hardest decision,” said one [...]
Corporate Leaders Push for Firms to Improve Oversight by Separating Roles
By JOANN S. LUBLIN
The effort to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive at U.S. public companies is gaining prominent new allies. More than 50 corporate leaders, investors and governance specialists Monday will urge companies to bolster board oversight of management by splitting the [...]
By Robin Wauters
I don’t care much for the celebrity culture, but clearly I’m in the minority judging by the amount of people who read gossip magazines and websites in order to get updates on every move their idols make. Twitter has already proven to be a great way for a number of celebrities to bypass [...]
By Ariana Huffington
I’m delighted that today we are launching a new venture — The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. This nonprofit Fund will produce a wide-range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers.
As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will [...]
By ERIC PFANNER
As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in its 62-year history.
At Springer’s headquarters in Berlin, there has been no desperate talk of how to survive the recession and the digital revolution. [...]