Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Feb.3, 2017

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Yemenis close NYC shops in protest of Trump travel ban, by Deepti Hajela and Verena Dobnik

Deutsche Bank reports another year loss, CEO cites progress, by David McHugh

Bloomberg

Why Citadel’s Ken Griffin can’t keep his star hires, by Annie Massa and Matthew Leising

Senate votes to reverse Obama-era coal rule, by Ari Natter and Catherine Traywick

Fortune

Who is winning the race to build self-driving cars? by Kirsten Korosec

Herbalife paid a $200 million fine. Then the FTC screwed it up, by Jen Wieczner

Reuters

U.S. labor market tightening, productivity still weak, by Lucia Mutikani

Snap’s secrecy frustrates banks’ pursuit of IPO glory, by Lauren Hirsch and Liana B. Baker

News about business journalism

Fortune’s Wieczner wins ASME Next Award

Fox Business continues to report strong ratings

Biz journalist Kissi named Tow-Knight fellow

The date in business journalism

2012: Website slams all-white staff at Economist

2007: Biz media have bigger ethical issues than being cozy with sources

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.