Sun Media Group is joining Harvest Fund Management to create Harvest Seven Stars Media Private Equity, an $800 million fund which will back entertainment ventures in China and abroad. Read more..

By MICHAEL CIEPLY - The New York Times

Potential support from California and New York would come in exchange for tightening provisions in order to preserve the right to investigate past misdeeds by the banks, and stepping up oversight. Read more..

By SHAILA DEWAN and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ - The New York Times

The cuts are part of new austerity measures that Athens must agree on to secure rescue funds from international lenders. Read more..

By NIKI KITSANTONIS and DAVID JOLLY - The New York Times

Men in suits, recoiling as if punched by unseen fists. It’s part of a campaign for Garp, a nonprofit group that encourages professionals to take the organization’s exams to become certified as financial risk managers. Read more..

By STUART ELLIOTT - The New York Times

NBC is estimated to have spent as much as $25 million promoting Smash, a new series that the network hopes will be the hit it desperately needs; while NBC would welcome much-better-than average ratings, the network has made efforts to tamp down expectations. Read more..

By BILL CARTER - The New York Times

Web sites, newspapers and other news organizations are gearing up to produce hours of video programming, in part to pursue the higher revenues available from video ads; The Wall Street Journal already produces about four hours of live programming each weekday, with plans for more hours in 2012; The New York Times Web site has begun running a morning business newscast, which joins its taped daily show TimesCast. Read more..

By BRIAN STELTER - The New York Times

Mr. Cohen was president of the Hudson County News Company, a newspaper distributorship, when it went into the retail field in the mid-1970s by taking over a newsstand at the Newark airport. Read more..

By DENNIS HEVESI - The New York Times