Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Feb. 21, 2017

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Uber to investigate sexual harassment claim by engineer, by Danica Kirka and David Koenig

Duck boats face increasing calls for improvements, bans, by Denise Lavoie

Bloomberg

Burger King said to be in advanced talks to buy Popeyes, by Ruth David and Ed Hammond

Failed Kraft plan leaves Unilever with something to prove, by Thomas Buckley and Devin Banerjee

Fortune

Verizon is introducing a new cheap prepaid plan, by Aaron Pressman

Intel CEO touts new strategy for next wireless wave, by Aaron Pressman

Reuters

VW, unions make headway in turnaround plan talks, by Jan Schwartz and Andreas Cramer

Snap arrives in London to woo skeptical investors ahead of IPO, by Simon Jessop and Sophie Sassard

News about business journalism

Paletta joins Washington Post as senior economics correspondent

ICIJ wins Polk Award for financial reporting

Auriemma named editor of Money, replaced Harris

Techdirt sets up survival fund

Remembering Jim Michaels of Forbes

WSJ reporter Browning retires after 38 years at paper

The date in business journalism

2012: HuffPo biz editor Goodman to do more writing

2007: Kadlec becomes Minyanville’s personal finance editor

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.