Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Dec. 5, 2018

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Trump, German auto executives meet at White House, by Darlene Superville

Renewed jitters over trade send stock, bond prices lower, by Alex Veiga

Bloomberg

Goldman is on the brink of erasing the Trump bump, by David Scheer

Disney ties Iger pay and legacy to messy Fox deal, by Tara Lachapelle

Fortune

NHL goes west, bringing an expansion hockey franchise to Seattle, by Emily Gillespie

Need proof that companies can have gender diverse boards? Look at France, by Claire Zillman

Reuters

As markets turn, Fed says it is not fazed, by Howard Schneider and Jonathan Spicer

Trump panel wants to give USPS right to hike prices for Amazon, others, by Diane Bartz and Jeffrey Dastin

News about business journalism

The Information founder Lessin warns about “agenda journalism”

Former Reuters DC bureau chief dies at 86

Reuters parent plans to cut 12 percent of its jobs

Washington Post starts a tech newsletter

This date in business journalism

2013: Madoff didn’t like his WSJ hedcut

2008: Company claims in SEC filings it has a right to review articles

Business journalism birthdays:

Dec. 5: Liz Crampton of Politico

Dec. 5: Marty Schenker of Bloomberg News

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.