Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Dec. 12, 2016

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

For all his threats, Trump seen by businesses as key ally, by Josh Boak

Brexit uncertainties threaten brain drain for UK science, by Sylvia Hui

Bloomberg

Boeing-Iran deal for $16.6 billion of jets is first since 1979, by Golnar Motevalli and Spencer Soper

“Rogue One” to test whether fans want “Star Wars” every year, by Christopher Palmeri and Anoush Sakoui

Fortune

America now has a record-high 5,000 breweries and counting, by Brad Tuttle

Uber drivers’ harsh conditions detailed in British government report, by David Z. Morris

MarketWatch.com

Look for the Fed to raise interest rates this week and ignore the elephant in the room, by Greg Robb

Tim Cook’s emails may not be good for investors over time, by Jennifer Booton

News about business journalism

Crain’s Detroit to put more content behind paywall in 2017

Crain’s Detroit hires Livengood from Detroit News

Edmonton Journal biz columnist leaves paper

Crain’s Chicago Business editorial cartoonist says goodbye

WSJ shuffles DC jobs, creates business and government team

Borchardt leaves Women’s Wear Daily, now freelancing

Moore joins Yahoo Finance as personal finance project consultant

FT launching premium newsletter on Monday

The date in business journalism

2011:  Next “Money Honey” works at a real newspaper

2006: Dow Jones CEO says no layoffs coming

Business journalism birthday

Dec. 12: Liz Claman of Fox Business Network

Dec. 12: Melissa Francis of Fox Business Network

Dec. 12: Jon Fortt of CNBC

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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