Talking Biz News Today — Jan. 30, 2015

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

The New York Times

Greece’s feisty finance minister tries a more moderate message, by Liz Alderman

Shake Shack, born in a park, is going public with big dreams, by Michael J. de la Merced and Kim Severson

The Wall Street Journal

Super Bowl challenge for box makers: 12.5 million pizzas, by Bob Tita

Amazon delivers bigger-than-expected profit, by Greg Biensinger

Bloomberg

Cheap oil burns $390 billion hole in investors’ pockets, by Asjylyn Loder and Elizabeth Dexheimer

Ruble slides past 70 per dollar after Russia’s surprise rate cut, by Lyubov Pronina, Vladimir Kuznetsov and Ksenia Galouchko

Reuters

McDonald’s franchisees to new CEO: back-to-basics, fast, by Lisa Baertlein

U.S. growth cools in fourth quarter, but consumer spending robust, by Lucia Mutikani

News about business journalism

Bloomberg Business is a splash, not a redesign

Houston Chronicle hires DME for sports/business

Minneapolis daily names new business editor

Blodget: Business Insider goal is to be world’s biggest biz news source

AP boosts its automated earnings story output

This date in business journalism history

2008: Fox Business: We can use WSJ reporters for breaking news

2011: The problem with Fortune’s best companies list

Business journalism birthdays

Jan. 30: Katie Little of CNBC

Jan. 31: Andrew Dunn of The Charlotte Observer

Jan. 31: Jason deBruyn of The Triangle Business Journal