Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
The New York Times
With an apology, Brian Williams digs himself deeper in copter tale, by Jonathan Mahler, Ravi Somaiya and Emily Steel
Experts suspect lax security left Anthem vulnerable to hackers, by Reed Abelson and Matthew Goldstein
The Wall Street Journal
Strategic confusion put RadioShack at mercy of lenders, by Drew Fitzgerald and Matt Jarzemsky
Computer-driven, automatic trading strategies score big, by Rob Copeland and Laurence Fletcher
Buisness Insider
The extraordinary story of Nigeria’s $20 billion oil money ‘leakage’, by Tim Cocks and Joe Brock
Investors are funnelling a record amount of cash into Europe, by Mike Bird
The Associated Press
US gains strong 257k jobs, pay jumps; jobless rate 5.7 pct., by Christopher S. Rugaber
Sprint to set up shop as RadioShack files for bankruptcy, by Anne D’innocenzio and Michelle Chapman
News about business journalism
Huffington Post hires media editor
Bloomberg hires two in DC bureau
Reuters names two top news staffers
Bloomberg Pursuits to become younger, snappier
WSJ’s Albergotti resigns to join The Information
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