Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
The New York Times
Walmart emerges as unlikely social force, by Hiroko Tabuchi and Michael Barbaro
Auto sales slow after months of healthy growth, by Bill Vlasic and Aaron M. Kessler
The Wall Street Journal
RadioShack is dead, long live RadioShack, by Peg Brickley and Drew Fitzgerald
EU lays groundwork for antitrust charges against Google, by Tom Fairless and Alistair Barr
The Washington Post
Citizens Bank to offer parents loans to pay for college, by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Iceland has a radical plan to redefine money, by Max Ehrenfreund
CNBC
Fed’s Yellen: Research needed to understand inequality issue, by Reuters
US weekly jobless claims total 268,000 vs 285,000 estimate, by Reuters
News about business journalism
Reuters hires online producer/social media deputy
Bloomberg DC bureau chief leaves for Vox
Economist’s deputy editor Standage talks Espresso
April Fools’: Quartz hires artificially intelligent tech reporter
CNBC hires two data journalists
This date in business journalism history
2006: Fixing Fast Company magazine
2009: Forbes and females
Business journalism birthdays
April 2: Emily Steel of The New York Times
April 2: Julia La Roche of Business Insider
April 2: Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York
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