Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
The Wall Street Journal
EU hits McDonald’s with full-blown tax investigation, by Tom Fairless
Sears Holdings revenue slides, by Anne Steele
Quartz
Is Marissa Mayer to blame for Yahoo’s failed comeback?, by Dan Frommer
General Electric is dumping prime-time TV advertising, by Ashley Rodriguez
Bloomberg
The jobs report probably won’t change the Fed’s mind on liftoff, by Victoria Stilwell
OPEC states push for output cuts in face of Saudi opposition, by Javier Blas, Nayla Razzouk and Wael Mahdi
The Associated Press
Small retailers get creative when holiday sales turn slow, by Joyce M. Rosenberg
Yellen signals growing likelihood of a December rate hike, by Martin Crutsinger
Reuters
Toyota to boost supply of trucks, SUVs to meet U.S. demand, by Bernie Woodall
Gannett brings its papers under new USA Today Network banner, by Alan John Koshy and Jessica Toonkel
News about business journalism:
Wyoming Business Report is sold
Michigan biz publication to begin charging for content
Examining the Engadget strategy
LinkedIn hires Bloomberg’s Brooker
Dayton biz magazine to stop print edition
Fox Business posts highest monthly ratings ever
This date in business journalism history:
2007: Aiming for young business news viewers
2014: Cramer is never wrong, and that’s the problem
Business journalism birthdays:
Dec. 4: Julia Boorstin with CNBC
Mark Seibel, The Washington Post’s technology policy editor, is retiring. Seibel supervised coverage of technology,…
Unionized journalists behind The New York Times’s Wirecutter have unanimously approved a new three-year contract.…
Chase Rogers, who covers transportation for the Austin American-Statesman, is moving to the Dallas Morning…
Studies show a negative bias in U.S. coverage of the economy and gas prices, particularly…
Bloomberg Law has hired Aruni Soni to cover intellectual property law. She most recently has been a…
Robert Libetti, an executive producer for The Wall Street Journal where he leads video…