The Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other down-on-their luck newspapers, emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy after four years this week. Its first move will probably be to sell off the papers cheaply and focus on cable television. Read more
Why Avis Budget should take its lead from Zipcar
The news that Avis Budget is buying Zipcar for $500m evokes mixed feelings in me for two reasons.
One is that I was a regular Zipcar user for seven years in New York, where we did not own a car. On returning to sprawling London, I have just succumbed and bought a car again, thus reducing my Zipcar use. Read more
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John Gapper is an associate editor and the chief business commentator of the FT.
He has worked for the FT since 1987, covering labour relations, banking and the media. He is co-author, with Nicholas Denton, of 'All That Glitters', an account of the collapse of Barings in 1995.
Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the FT. He is a former City editor, financial editor, comment and analysis editor, New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.
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