Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Aug. 17, 2016

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Google’s search engine directs voters to the ballot box, by Michael Liedtke

World Trade Center mall reopens, shows progress since 9/11, by Anne D’Innocenzio

Bloomberg

Icahn calls on EPA to fix “mother of all short squeezes,” by Laura Blewitt and Zachary Mider

Tudor said to cut 15% of workforce after losses, withdrawals, by Saijel Kishnan

MarketWatch.com

Cisco earnings: Summer layoffs to return? by Jennifer Booton

StemCells CEO, CFO and three directors resigned the day of merger that increased stock seven fold, by Tomi Kilgore

Reuters

Apple to boost China investment as demand slows, by Paul Carsten

SEC cracks down on severance agreements that deter whistleblowing, by Sarah N. Lynch

News about business journalism

Hwang leaves Bloomberg for Wall Street Journal

Ex-Bloomberg reporter joins artificial intelligence company

The date in business journalism

2011: Bloomberg hires new media reporter

2006: Former Wichita biz editor takes education job

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.