Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Dec. 13, 2018

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

House farm bill passes, sending it to Trump’s desk, by Juliet Linderman

States ask court to stop Trump from reviving U.S. coal sales, by Matthew Brown

Bloomberg

U.S. stocks rebound on renewed trade hopes, by Sarah Ponczek and Luke Kawa

Elon Musk is getting the last laugh on Wall Street after a wild 2018, by Esha Dey

Fortune

65,000 Toyota, Lexus vehicles recalled a second time, by Brittany Shoot

The best business leaders aren’t CEOs. They’re COOS, by Andrew Nusca

Reuters

Canada frees CFO of China’s Huawei, Trump might intervene, by Julie Gordon and Anna Mehler Paperny

China’s Tencent Music debut strikes a chord with investors, by Mary Ann Alapatt and Aparajita Saxena

News about business journalism

Former Phoenix Biz Journal editor Lowery joins Common Sense Media

How Kara Swisher uses Twitter to formulate columns

Yahoo Finance gets standalone app on Apple TV devices

WSJ’s Podd is retiring after 25 years

Meredith sells The Drive, seeks $10-$15 million for Money

Politico hires Rosca to cover finance in London

This date in business journalism

2013: VentureBeat names Tweney its editor in chief

2008: WSJ to add web offerings, more charges

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 Fortun

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.