Talking Biz News Today — April 7, 2014

Monday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

Yahoo makes new push into video content, by Mike Shields and Douglas MacMillan

The New York Times

Young, rich and ruling radio, country walks a broader line, by Ben Sisario
Guarded optimism after breast cancer drug shows promising results, by Andrew Pollack

The Associated Press

India’s Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $4 Bln deal, by Kay Johnson
Lands’ End to start trading as public company

Reuters

Dark markets may be more harmful than high-frequency trading, by John McCrank

Re/code

Nielsen’s ability to measure mobile TV viewing takes step forward, by Dawn Chmielewski

Businessweek

Why education spending doesn’t lead to economic growth, by Charles Kenny

Today in business journalism

Cohn celebrates 25 years at CNBC
NYTimes’ Sorkin: I am not a Wall Street Insider
WSJ names Canada bank reporter
Bartiromo’s early ratings at Fox Business are terrible
Vox, the forefront of technology and journalism?

This date in business journalism history

2008: Mistrial declared in case of ex-Boeing employee who was source
2009: Watchdog group delivers petition with 21,000 signatures to CNBC

Birthdays

April 7: Charles Dubow of Bloomberg Businessweek

April 7: Josh Lipton of CNBC