Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Jan. 18, 2017

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Tobacco giant to emerge from $49 billion deal, by Danica Kirka

New prescription: Doctor offices that look like Apple stores, by Michael Liedtke

Bloomberg

Goldman protests featuring swamp creatures vow to stay all week, by Zeke Faux

Sotheby’s wants its money back for another Old Master fake, by Katya Kazakina

Fortune

Here’s why Biogen is forking over $1.25 billion for a small Danish biotech, by Sy Mukherjee

Shake Shack is making a new animal welfare promise, by John Kell

Reuters

Deutsche Bank signs $7.2 billion deal with U.S. over risky mortgages, by Karen Freifeld

Morgan Stanley’s profit doubles on bond-trading surge, by Olivia Oran and Sruthi Shankar

News about business journalism

Reuters names French its M&A reporter for energy and financial services

Barron’s launches email newsletter aimed at financial advisors

Business Insider launches Japan site

Politico hires Bloomberg Businssweek senior editor Hoffman

The date in business journalism

2012: Time relaunches online biz section

2007: Bloomberg TV expands into Washington

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.