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Talking Biz News Today — Feb. 20, 2019

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

I owe how much? Americans shocked by impact of new tax law, by Sarah Skidmore Sell

US stocks bounce back from wobbly start to extend gains, by Alex Veiga

Bloomberg

Tesla to make about 500,000 cars this year, by Ville Heiskanen

Self-driving cars might kill auto insurance as we know it, by Paul Tullis

Fortune

Amir Husain is building the future of AI, by Dinah Eng

An activist investor takes on the wage gap, by Ellen McGirt

Reuters 

U.S. watchdog proposes “testing waters” before public offerings, by Katanga Johnson

Oil dips from 2019 highs as rising U.S. supply erodes OPEC cuts, by Henning Gloystein

News about business journalism

Longtime biz reporter Davis leaving KC Star via buyout

Commercial real estate reporter McClung leaving Denver Biz Journal

Triangle Biz Journal real estate reporter Graham is leaving

The Atlantic hires WSJ reporter Nicholas

Adweek hires Wodinsky to cover all things tech

STAT hires Chakradhar to write Morning Rounds newsletter

Washington Post biz desk hires Seibel as tech policy editor

Fortune hires Belanger as production editor

Recode to start new podcast with three shows per week

This date in business journalism

2014: Kleman, former Consumer Reports editor, hired as editor of American Lawyer

2009: Biz journalists who move the market

Business journalism birthday

Feb. 20: John Waggoner of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

Feb. 20: Bill Roy of the Wichita Business Journal

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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