NY Times gets $250m from Slim as US newspaper industry wobbles
GenevaLunch News One of the world’s richest people, Mexico’s Carlos Slim, is investing $250 million in the New York Times, the newspaper confirmed, in the form of warrants. He already has a 6.9% stake...
View ArticleWashington Post, NY Times cut salaries, costs
GenevaLunch News Two major US city newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post, are cutting salaries and jobs as well as other costs in a dismal market that is worsening, they say, with...
View ArticleThe bank ate my newspaper
GenevaLunch News Updated 14 April 07:45 Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Everyone knows banks are in desperate shape. Curiously, few people seem to realize that the newspapers bringing...
View ArticleFive die in bid to free NY Times journalists
GenevaLunch News A pre-dawn commando raid 8 September by British paratroopers to rescue two NY Times reporters from their Taliban kidnappers in Kunduz province of Afghanistan ended in the release of...
View ArticleVatican says NY Times sex abuse coverage unbalanced
GenevaLunch News Cardinal William Levada, an American at the Vatican, has accused the NY Times of unbalanced coverage of the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, in an article published on the...
View ArticleUS committee asks if filmmakers accessed Bin Laden death footage
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The US House of Representatives homeland security committee looks set to investigate claims by a New York Times columnist that Sony Pictures is producing a film...
View ArticleUS banks to be sued by gov’t over mortgages
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The US Federal Housing Finance Agency is starting lawsuits against a number of US banks, according to the New York Times, over mortgages the government says the...
View ArticleIf you read the NY Times on Swiss banks take a minute to read what the Swiss say
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Apologies for the confusion; I accidentally posted this briefly on the news page and it has now been moved to its correct home, on the editorial page. You’ll find...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs executive’s noisy resignation puts Wall St in limelight
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - A Goldman Sachs executive who publicly criticized the firm’s “toxic” environment in the Op-Ed column of the New York Times Wednesday has sparked debate about...
View ArticleBye-bye, IHT, hello INYT (blast from the past?)
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The International Herald Tribune, arguably the only general news international English language newspaper, is changing its name in a move its parent, the New York...
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