Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Jan. 11, 2018

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Coal baron’s “action plan” became Trump policy initiatives, by Michael Biesecker

Behind the smart gadgets, Amazon and Google are waging war, by Ryan Nakashima and Matt O’Brien

Bloomberg

Markets grow jittery as NAFTA talks drag on and threats emerge, by Randy Woods

Valeant’s “Significant Seven” aren’t quite that magnificent, by Max Nisen

Fortune

7-Eleven stores targeted in nationwide immigration sweep, by Natasha Bach

Diet Coke gets a redesign for the LaCroix generation, by Phil Wahba

Reuters

U.S. Justice Department blindsided banking agency in pot policy flip, by Sarah N. Lynch

Canada takes U.S. to WTO, U.S. says case helps China, by Tom Miles

News about business journalism

Remembering Jack Robinson, former Sacramento Biz Journal editor

Hinden, former Washington Post biz reporter, dies at 90

Wharton to hold workshop on funding and scaling startups

O’Connor, formerly of Forbes, hired by Bumble

Reuters journalists charged in Myanmar

Buffalo Business First names new publisher

This date in business journalism

2013: WSJ revamps video team management

2008: Paying for FT.com content doesn’t make any sense

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.