Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Aug. 13, 2018

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Wildfire victims among those stung by Trump trade war, by Geoff Mulvihill and Jonathan J. Cooper

Growing Spokane, Washington, sheds its sleepy city image, by Nicholas K. Geranios

Bloomberg

Many of the best Wall Street jobs for women aren’t on Wall Street, by Liz McCormick and John Gittelsohn

The $250 biohack that’s revolutionizing life with diabetes, by Noami Kresge and Michelle Cortez

Fortune

Google’s path back into China includes a host of local partners, by David Z. Morris

Netflix original content has grown by 88% this year, but old TV still rules the remote, by David Z. Morris

Reuters 

Trump backs boycott of Harley Davidson in steel tariff dispute, by Ginger Gibson

Alaska seafood industry braces for China tariff plan, by Yereth Rosen

News about business journalism

Stancavage, longtime Tulsa World biz editor, dies at 59

Financial Post columnist Critchley takes buyout

Reporter Guadiano leaves Marketwatch.com to become financial planner

USA Today hires Maltais to oversee food, retail and personal tech coverage

USA Today hies Herron to cover personal finance, real estate

Sale of Fortune and Money to happen soon

Biz reporter Yowell leaving Omaha daily

Post-Dispatch health care reporter joining Industry Dive

This date in business journalism

2013: AP hires new financial markets reporter

2008: Staff cuts at two Florida business desks

Business journalism birthday

Aug. 13: Sara Salinas of CNBC.com

Aug. 13: Joanna Ossinger of Bloomberg News

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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