Talking Biz News Today – Feb. 4, 2016

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

Fresh ingredients came back to haunt Chipotle, by Julie Jargon and Jesse Newman

GM’s earnings surge on tax gain, sales in China, U.S., by Gautham Nagesh and Christina Rogers

Bloomberg

YouTube schedules original shows, movies for new paid service, by Lucas Shaw

Tesla shifts gears to send Model X SUVs to China before Europe, by Dana Hull

The Associated Press

Survey: Growth at U.S. services companies slowed in January, by Josh Boak

Comcast loses fewest TV customers in 8 years, by Tali Arbel

Reuters

Global business activity starts 2016 on weak note, by Jonathan Cable

Merck gives cautious 2016 outlook as sales of top medicines lag, by Ransdell Pierson 

Quartz

The world’s biggest luxury company isn’t worried about China, by Marc Bain

Google is winning, by Dan Frommer

News about business journalism:

Strike at FT is called off

WSJ plugs pay gap hole at Instapaper

LA Times names Muessig its tech editor

Quartz hires West Coast video correspondent

Real estate writer Beale leaves LA Times via buyout

Fox Business posts record ratings in January

Forbes hires Drange to cover tech

The top U.S. tech writers followed by other tech writers

This date in business journalism history:

2014: Why SeekingAlpha is great for investors but uncomfortable for PR people

2011: The role of business journalism in society

Business journalism birthdays: 

Feb. 4: Kathy Kristof

Take TBN’s 2016 salary survey of business journalists HERE.