Media Digest 6/19/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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According to Reuters, Paulson will push for more market and financial regulations.

Reuters writes the Anheuser-Busch (BUD) board will meet on the InBev offer.

Reuters reports that the GAO was critical of the Air Force decision to give a tanker project to Northrup Grumman (NOC), leaving an opening for Boeing (BA).

Reuters writes that GM (GM) is slowing development of new SUVs.

Reuters reports that HP (HPQ) will reorganize ifts printer business.

The Wall Street Journal reports that banks are changing accounting to mask financial troubles.

The Wall Street Journal reports the off-shore drilling will take years to add to oil supply.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apollo Management is trying to kill its deal to buy Huntsman (HUN).

The Wall Street Journal writes that Thornburg Mortgage (TMA) has said it survival is in doubt.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Sprint’s (S) new smartphone will cost $129.

The Wall Street Journal writes that the CEO of Hearst quit.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Pfizer (PFE) has cut a deal to keep a cheap version of Lipitor off the market until 2011.

The Wall Street Journal says Toyota (TM) truck sales are faltering in the US.

The Wall Street Journal writes that AT&T (T) is asking Dish Network to buy back $500 million in securities.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Verizon (VZ) is boosting the speed of its fiber-to-the-home product.

The New York Times reports that a shortage of ships is delaying some off-shore drilling projects.

The New York Times writes that Americans are driving less due to higher gas prices.

The FT writes that hedge fund manager John Paulson says that the financial markets will get much worse.

Bloomberg writes that Cerberus is troubled by cash consumption at Chrysler.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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