By Lionel Barber In a radio address in December 1940, one year before the US entered World War II, Franklin D Roosevelt described America as “the arsenal of democracy”. Today, the guns are falling silent across the western front. Independent journalism, the lifeblood of an informed democracy, faces existential challenges, particularly in the US. The…
Lighter regulation and excess capital are setting up the biggest U.S. banking wave since the 2008 crisis. The U.S. banking industry is bracing for its most significant wave of consolidation since the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new Bain & Co. analysis. The firm expects the number of trillion-dollar U.S. banks to grow from…
By David Walmsley, President, World Editors Forum, Editor in Chief, Globe and Mail | Mariya Gabriel, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information at UNESCO | Liz Corbin, Director of News, European Broadcasting Union. We are not short of information. We have never had more of it. Yet across the world, people struggle to answer the…
Tesla earnings can turn an ordinary trading session into a highly volatile one because investors are not simply evaluating what the company has already achieved. They are also trying to determine what those results mean for Tesla’s future growth, profitability, cash generation, and ambitious technology plans. A quarterly report is more like a dashboard: revenue,…
By Michael Miller Executive Chairman, News Corp Australasia Today, 28 September, marks World News Day, when newsrooms worldwide make the same point in unison: that trustworthy reporting isn’t a luxury, it’s a lifeline. This year, that point needs making more urgently than most. Democracies run on a shared set of facts. Courts, elections, markets, even…
The private equity industry likes to talk about patient capital, but the numbers tell a more specific story than the phrase suggests. The typical holding period investors expect when they commit to a fund is three to seven years. Recent data puts the actual median closer to six, the longest since research firms began tracking…
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff. How to use the CSS Custom Highlight API Sunkanmi Fafowora demonstrated how to use the CSS Custom Highlight API, which is now supported by…
World News Day 2026 is here. From today, 25 September, until 1 October, more than 1,000 news organisations and support agencies in over 100 countries will run a joint campaign for fact-based journalism. The main day is Monday 28 September, which is also the United Nations’ International Day for Universal Access to Information. What it’s…
By Alia Ibrahim, Co-founder and CEO Daraj.com For a couple of months in 2020, my dining-room table was covered by a huge map detailing the companies connected to Lebanon’s central bank governor, Riad Salameh. We had been investigating him for months, and by then it was clear to us that he owned at least two…
You’ve got the apartment lease signed and the moving boxes half unpacked, and somewhere in the back of your mind is a vague sense that you’re supposed to deal with the DMV at some point. Nevada doesn’t give you much room to put it off. New residents get 30 days to handle both vehicle registration…