Peter S. Green
Reporter, Editor, Newsroom Manager
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The New York Times
Now Showing on Czech TV: Financial Battles
Boardroom battles do not usually attract more television viewers than the World Cup, but as financial and political power brokers in the Czech Republic struggle for control of the leading TV station, nearly a million viewers are tuning in to watch the fray.
The New York Times
A Czech Billionaire Buys a Piece of Le Monde
Why did a Czech billionaire buy a stake in France's most prestigious newspaper?
The New York Times
Polish Tale of Bribery and/or Politics and/or Journalism
It reads like the script of a ''B'' movie: A tough-talking, Russian-born heavy promises to smooth out the legislative obstacles facing one of post-Communist Poland's most successful companies. All he wants, he tells one of the country's most influential men, is $17.5 million.
The New York Times
Media Bribery Scandal Threatens Poland's Government
A widening political scandal over a reported attempt by a producer of ''The Pianist'' to solicit a bribe from the editor of Poland's largest newspaper is now threatening to bring down Poland's government and block its entry to the European Union.
The New York Times
Share Sale Buoys Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza : Daily Thrives on its Values
Gazeta Wyborcza, the newspaper that helped Poland's Solidarity labor union movement defeat the Communist rulers in 1989, is taking its ambitions to the next level: financial solidity.
The New York Times
A Prague Perspective for a New York Newsroom
''It's not like we're failed novelists,'' he said. ''We've been running a serious newspaper in a capital city, and now we're going to New York.''
Crain's New York Business
What I learned from retiring Post editor Col Allan/Crain's NY Business
An appreciation of the departing NY Post editor.
New York Times
In Prague, a New Daily for English-Speakers - by Jane Perlez
Article about a new daily newspaper I helped start
The New York Times
DOZENS ARE DEAD AS FLOODS SWEEP THROUGH EUROPE
Parts of the historic center of Prague were under water tonight and 50,000 residents were ordered evacuated as rivers swollen by more than a week of near constant rain etched ribbons of destruction across Central Europe and southern Russia.
More than a dozen people were killed by high waters today, pushing the toll for the last week well past 70. In Russia alone, 58 people have died in flooding caused by some of the heaviest rains in memory.
With the worst rains since 1890 pelting the Czech R...
Crain's New York Business
Churches grappling with Harlem's development boom
Houses of worship grappling with Harlem's development boom
Quartz
The Coming Global Water Crisis
The world is running out of water. Here's why you should be afraid.
The New York Times
ARTS ABROAD; Partners in a Translucent Alchemy of Color and Freedom
''Alchemy,'' answered Stanislav Libensky. The question was how Mr. Libensky and his wife, Jaroslava Brychtova, arrive at the sublimely pure colors that define their work as glass artists, and it seemed an almost plausible explanation for the genius that has made them among the most respected artists in their medium today.
In fact, there is nothing mysterious about the Libenskys' work. They have spent nearly half a century refining the art and technique of casting huge chunks of delicately col...
Bloomberg
Tax Whistleblower Series Changes IRS Practice
A series on tax whistleblowers forced the IRS t change the way it treats citizens who bring tax fraud to the service's attention. It also broke the story of Caterpillars multi-billion-dollar tax avoidance plan.
The Street
Energy, Politics and Putin: Russia's Gas Power Play Traps Europe ...
Energy, Politics and Putin: Russia's Gas Power Play...