Daniel Howes
ContributorDaniel Howes is columnist and associate business editor of The Detroit News. A former European correspondent for The News, he has reported from nearly 25 countries on three continents and in the Middle East. Before heading to Europe in 1999, Howes was senior automotive writer and a business projects writer. He is a frequent contributor to NewsTalk 760-WJR in Detroit and a weekly contributor to Michigan Radio in Ann Arbor.
Howes is winner of multiple International Wheel Awards for column writing; a four-time winner of Northwestern University’s Medill award for general markets coverage; three-time winner for commentary from the Society of Business Editors and Writers; and a three-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards, including an honorable mention for commentary in 2007.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from The College of Wooster in Ohio, and a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University.
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The longest United Auto Workers national strike against General Motors in nearly 50 years is done.Well, not exactly.Instead of ordering nearly 49,000…
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The United Auto Workers strike against General Motors is the longest in 49 years. And a lot has changed.The union’s 49,000 GM employees are a fraction of… -
Detroit’s automotive agenda in President Donald Trump’s Washington may just have gone poof.Judging by the first few days of the impeachment inquiry, the…
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The United Auto Workers strike against General Motors is all about economics and job security. Yet for just about everyone else, it’s about political…
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In President Donald Trump’s America, it matters where automakers bend metal.That’s one reason General Motors CEO Mary Barra journeyed to the Oval Office…
