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Talking Biz News Today — Jan. 20, 2020

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Gun industry gathers amid slumping sales, rising tensions, by Lisa Marie Pane

Rising inequality eroding trust in capitalism – survey, by Pan Pylas

Fortune

A.I. breakthroughs in natural-language processing are big for business, by Jeremy Kahn

How Ganni used tech-world tricks to grow from a cult fashion label to a global brand, by Nicole Gull McElroy

CNN

The recession in global car sales shows no sign of ending, by Charles Riley

22 men own more wealth than Africa’s 326 million women, Oxfam says, by Charles Riley

The Wall Street Journal

Cash, Plastic or Hand? Amazon Envisions Paying With a Wave, by AnnaMaria Andriotis

U.S. Companies Fuel Europe’s Green-Energy Push, by Emre Peker

Reuters

IEA warns oil companies doing nothing on emissions is not an option, by Bate Felix

JPMorgan to buy Paris building to bring euro teams from London, by Gwenaelle Barzic

News about business journalism

Wired opens a permanent store at Newark airport

Crain’s Detroit reporter Frank moves to new beat

Vox’s Recode has hired Estes as deputy editor

Bloomberg’s Kapur hired by NBC News

Business Insider hires Lahut as politics reporter

BBC appoints David as global trade correspondent

KQED News hires Bandlamudi as Silicon Valley reporter

Chin departing Business Insider for The Verge

WSJ hires BuzzFeed’s Nguyen to write tech column

American Banker names Kline its editor-in-chief

FT’s Barber: There are limits to what technology can do in journalism

Quartz hires McDonnell as energy and climate reporter

Politico’s Calderone hired by Vanity Fair’s The Hive

NY Times hires Quartz’s Karaian as Dealbook editor

Couts named deputy editor at Gizmodo

Journalists partner to launch British business magazine

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