Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Dec. 13, 2016

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Oil spurt drives Dow to record despite drop for most stocks, by Stan Choe

Titans of new industry spring $1 billion clean energy fund, by David Koenig

Bloomberg

Trump attacks Lockheed’s F-35 jet in a blow to defense stocks, by Julie Johnsson, Anthony Carpaccio and Rick Clough

Highland Capital sues Muirfield president for defamation, by Patricia Hurtado and Katia Prozecanski

Fortune

Jose Canseco wants to be America’s next Fed chairman, by Lucinda Shen

Viacom stock tanks after CBS merger called off, by Matthew Ingram

Reuters

Exxon’s financial metrics mixed during Tillerson’s decade as CEO, by Ernest Scheyder

Trump’s tough trade talk makes U.S. companies fear China retribution, by Nick Carey and Ginger Gibson

News about business journalism

Inc.’s digital revenues surpassed spring in 2016

Reuters names Robinson editor in charge of EMEA coverage

Quartz adds three editorial staffers

Bloomberg hires Nocera from NY Times

The date in business journalism

2011: New LA Times editor is former biz editor

2006: Ugly month for ad sales for business magazines in November

Business journalism birthday

Dec. 13: Trish Regan of Fox Business Network

Dec. 13: Mamta Badkar of the Financial Times

Dec. 13: Neil Roland of MLex

Dec. 13: Lucinda Shen of Fortune

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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