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Talking Biz News Today — Feb. 1, 2019

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Amazon has another “Prime” holiday: Profit tops $3 billion, by Joseph Pisani

A robust US job market likely defied government shutdown during January, by Christopher Rugaber

Bloomberg

Tesla job cuts include more than 1,000 in California, by Dana Hull

Trump considering Herman Cain for Federal Reserve Board, by Jennifer Jacobs

Fortune

Mercedes-Benz gives its G-class the first makeover in 40 years, by Jaclyn Trop

Wall Street’s earnings forecasts are dropping fast, by Shawn Tully

Reuters 

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin signs launch deal with Canada’s Telesat, by Joey Roulette

Asian shares rise to four-month high on hopes of Trump-Xi meet, by Wayne Cole

News about business journalism

Forbes hires two assistant editors

Longtime biz journalist Michael Sesit dies

Yahoo Finance hires Smith as DC reporter

How Bloomberg researches TicToc see what readers want

NPR names Domonoske its energy and mobility reporter

Yahoo Finance is expanding its events business

Wired launches Middle East edition

This date in business journalism

2014: Ad pages up at Barron’s

2009: The complaints about economics coverage

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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