Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Aug. 15, 2017

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

U.S. stocks jump as tensions with North Korea appear to ease, by Marley Jay

One-fifth of Americans find workplace hostile or threatening, by Paul Wiseman

Bloomberg

U.S. oil drillers keep pressure on OPEC with record shale output, by Catherine Traywick

Herbalife, Nu Skin shares plunge on fears of China crackdown, by Nick Turner and Matthew Townsend

Fortune

Target poaches WalMart, General Foods execs for food business, by Phil Wahba

Snap’s incredible, vanishing pile of cash, by Shawn Tully

Reuters

JPMorgan launches new algo-driven “dark pool” for stocks, by John McCrank

Buffett’s Berkshire adds Synchrony, sheds GE, by Jonathan Stempel

News about business journalism

“Planet Money” to host trade session on international trade

WSJ reporter Reinhard joins Washington Post investigative team

This date in business journalism

2012: Newsday launches new Sunday business section

2007: Barrons.com unveils new design

Business journalism birthday

Aug. 15: Tara Lachapelle of Bloomberg Gadfly

Aug. 15: Katie Roof of TechCrunch

Aug. 15: Spencer Soper of Bloomberg

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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