Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Feb. 14, 2018

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Stocks edge higher as three-day win streak restores some calm, by Marley Jay

Trump considering “all options” on steel, aluminum cases, by Ken Thomas

Bloomberg

Uber sales rose 61% to $2 billion in last quarter under new CEO, by Eric Newcomer

Short sellers’ favorite stock bets backfire, by Lu Wang

Fortune

You can now mine cryptocurrency while reading the news, by Lucinda Shen

Why Athenahealth and former GE CEO Jeff Immelt need each other, by Geoff Colvin

Reuters

Apple CEO downplays special dividend at shareholder meeting, by Stephen Nellis

Twitter’s CEO downplays talk about possible acquisition, by David Ingram

News about business journalism

Philly Inquirer hires Gantz from Baltimore Sun biz desk to cover health costs

Thomson Reuters CEO is in the hospital

Akron woman launches biz magazine for black female entrepreneurs

Bloomberg names Sherman its New Jersey bureau chief

Washington Post hires McArdle from Bloomberg View

FT says subscriptions grew 8 percent in 2017

Bloomberg names Chiglinsky its new Buffett reporter

This date in business journalism

2013: Parrish, former LA Times biz editor, dies at 67

2008: Hewlett-Packard settles case on spying on business journalists

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.