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Talking Biz News Today — April 21, 2017

Some Friday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

GM quits Venezuela after government seizes its factory, by Juan Carlos Hernandez and Joshua Goodman

Without O’Reilly, Fox News faces its toughest test, by David Bauder

Bloomberg

Elon Musk nears $1.4 billion windfall, by Anders Melin

Fed intensifies balance-sheet discussions with market players, by Craig Torres and Christopher Condon

Fortune

Dow Chemical asks Trump officials to ignore damning pesticide reports, by Sy Mukherjee

Starbucks baristas really hate the new unicorn frappuccino, by Abigail Abrams

Reuters

Wall St. rallies on earnings; Nasdaq hits record, by Chuck Mikolajczak

Wal-Mart CEO’s compensation rises to $22.4 million, by Nandita Bose

News about business journalism

SABEW Canada names Best in Business winners

O’Reilly taken down by NY Times biz reporter whom he threatened in 2015

Personal finance site NerdWallet lays off 40

Seven biz journalists seeking six SABEW board seats

Sports Business Daily reporter Silverman joins CableFax

The Economist and the redesign of its website

Bloomberg starts climate change news site

This date in business journalism

2012: Bloomberg TV’s Betty Liu getting radio show

2007: Why biz journalists sometimes ignore PR pitches

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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