Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Jan. 16, 2017

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Treasury chief says UK will adapt if barred from EU market, by Danica Kirka

Retail group launches training for entry-level job seekers, by Anne D’Innocenzio

Bloomberg

Nintendo takes big gamble with Switch’s split personality, by Yuji Nakamura and Gearoid Ready

Asia banks seeking tech hires over “rock-star” bankers this year, by Alfred Liu

Fortune

SpaceX launch is successful, by David Z. Morris

Millennials are worth half as much as their parents were at that age, by Lucinda Shen

Reuters

Samsung Electronics probe finds battery was main case for Note 7 fires, by Se Young Lee

Luxottica, Essilor in 46 billion euro merger to great eyewear giant, by Gianluca Semeraro

News about business journalism

New site Tarbell to explore how business influences government

American Lawyer names Passarella its executive editor

Cheddar launches network on Pluto TV

Easton, American finance editor for Economist, wins award

Wharton Seminars to hold free program in DC

“Marketplace” recasts itself as multimedia enterprise

Quartz’s focus on the global business professional

Da Costa hired by Business Insider to cover Fed

The date in business journalism

2012: Lacy launches tech news site

2007: New assistant biz editor in Des Moines

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.