Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Dec. 12, 2018

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Official: California must mull home ban in fire-prone areas, by Don Thompson

China and U.S. discuss plan for trade talks, by Joe McDonald

Bloomberg

Week-long carnage in bank stocks is worst slide of Trump era, by Elena Popina and Felice Maranz

Trump picks Pence economist to lead Fannie-Freddie regulator, by Elizabeth Dexheimer

Fortune

What Tencent Music’s $1.1B IPO says about China’s market downturn, by Kevin Kelleher

The NIH is MRI-ing kid’s brains while they instagram to study effects of screen time, by Brittany Shoot

Reuters 

Canada court grants bail to Huawei CFO; Trump might intervene, by Julie Gordon and Michael Martina

Google has no plans to launch Chinese search engine: CEO, by David Shepardson and Paresh Dave

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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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