Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
Global-related Aug 18, 2013
Newspaper rescue defines today's good citizen
by Esther Dyson
It would appear that Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos wants less to own The Washington Post than to set its values free financially, for at least a generation or two.
Global-related Aug 13, 2013
Can Bezos provide what good journalism needs?
by Robert Samuelson
A veteran journalist never imagined that American newspaper reporters and editors would become the economically threatened steelworkers of the 21st century.
Asia Pacific Aug 9, 2013
Xinhua falls for 'Bezos bought Post by mistake' spoof
China’s official Xinhua News Agency has reported as true a satirical story that Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post newspaper by accident. The publication on Xinhua’s website came days after it posted a photo gallery of images supposedly showing a woman being ...
Corporate | Focus Aug 7, 2013
Can Amazon's Bezos save the newspaper business?
by Matea Gold and Cecilia Kang
Amazon.com founder Jeffrey Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post promises not just an ownership change for the 135-year-old institution but a potential transformation of the fusty mechanics of the newspaper business. It remains to be seen whether the experiences of an Internet behemoth can ...
Business | Focus Aug 6, 2013
Grahams shepherded Post through tumultuous eight decades
by Robert Barnes and David A. Fahrenthold
It began with a bankruptcy sale in 1933, when a Republican businessman and presidential confidant reinvented himself as a newspaper publisher in the nation’s capital. It ended with an announcement that his descendants had sold the newspaper to an Internet wizard who lives in ...
Corporate | ANALYSIS Aug 6, 2013
Purchase harks back to age of newspaper titans
by Matea Gold
The Graham family’s decision to sell The Washington Post to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos underscores the re-emergence of wealthy individuals at the helm of major metro dailies as newspapers seek a refuge from the battering they have experienced on Wall Street. The news of ...