Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — April 2, 2019

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Boeing, FAA say more time needed for fix of troubled 737 MAX, by David Koenig

US retail sales declined 0.2 percent in February, by Josh Boak

Bloomberg

This this Lyft sell-off is bad? Wait ’til shortsellers enter fray, by Jeran Wittenstein

Apocalypse postponed in S&P 500 as profit outlook looks better, by Elena Popina and Sarah Ponczek

Fortune

Mark Zuckerberg has made the case against a fragmented internet. Here is the case for it, by David Meyer

Five lessons learned from a bonkers box office weekend, by Brian Raftery

Reuters 

Mixed data offers glimmers of hope for slowing U.S. economy, by Lucia Mutikani

Wall Street rallies on upbeat China, U.S. manufacturing data, by April Joyner

News about business journalism

The WSJ is adding more news to its apps

Cleveland layoffs claim energy reporter Funk

Axios hires Mashable’s Kramer for space newsletter

Florida Today biz editor Price leaves for foundation job

San Antonio daily hires Diamond to cover energy and manufacturing

Express-News hires Garcia to cover business of health care

LA Business Journal hires Robson as editor

CNBC hires Shao as Singapore reporter

Mergermarket hires Jiang as a reporter in Charlottesville

This date in business journalism

2014: WSJ hires Rivero to anchor WSJ Live

2009: The debate about financial journalism’s performance

Business journalism birthday

April 2: Emily Steel of The New York Times

April 2: Julia La Roche of Yahoo Finance

April 2: Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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