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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President Trump says America needs tariffs on foreign-made cars and trucks to safeguard our “national security.”Really? How many pickups do the Russians… -
Now we know what incompetent governance cost at Michigan State University.Half a billion dollars. That's the price to settle with 332 women sexually… -
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Apparently, hell hath no fury like environmental regulators who've been deceived.Just ask Martin Winterkorn. The former Volkswagen CEO was indicted this…
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A few years after the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler, I found myself on the long porch of Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel chatting with Fiat…
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The Chinese say they’re willing to change the rules that protect their precious auto industry. That’d be the industry companies like General Motors have… -
Now we know why Michigan State’s interim president, John Engler, tapped an ol’ Republican hand to head government relations at the school. He understands…
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The Detroit auto show isn’t dead.It just feels that way.The latest casualties are the princes of the German auto industry. First Mercedes-Benz won’t be…
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So Bill Ford wants the Blue Oval to buy the decrepit Michigan Central Depot. You know that toothless edifice, empty and decaying since 1988, towering over…
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The Blue Oval has seen the future, and it looks a whole lot like its past.Ford Motor claims a rich heritage building the nation’s best-selling pickup and…
