Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — July 19, 2016

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Yahoo reports another big loss, writes down Tumblr value, by Brandon Bailey and Michael Liedtke

U.S. says fuel economy likely won’t meet 2025 targets, by Dee-Ann Durbin and Tom Krisher

Bloomberg

Fiat Chrysler auto sales probed by Justice Department, SEC, by Tom Schoenberg and Tommaso Ebhardt

Uber inks software deal with Concur to ease business trips, by Eric Newcomer

MarketWatch.com

It’s cheaper to rent a home than buy it in just eight states, by Catey Hill

Current U.S. economic recovery may end up as longest ever, by Jeffrey Bartash

Reuters

SoftBank to buy UK chip designer ARM in $32 billion cash deal, by Chang-Ran Kim and Kate Holton

Bank of America sets new cost target under pressure from low rates, by Dan Freed and Sruthi Shankar

News about business journalism

Layoffs at Market News International include Fed reporter Beckner

Business Insider has hit 100M monthly unique visits

Company sues ex-worker for providing info to Bloomberg reporter

Cowen joins Bloomberg View as columnist

Bloomberg Media jumps back to No. 1 in video

Forbes Media promotes Federle to president

Fortune.com promotes three to deputy digital editor, hires five

CNNMoney names biz/tech correspondent in London

The date in business journalism

2011: Tampa Tribune reporter wins top individual NAREE award

2006: Cuban defends investigative biz journalism site

Business journalism birthday

July 19: Brian Sullivan of CNBC

July 19: Doug Fruehling of the Washington Business Journal

July 19: Jackie Bischof of Quartz

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.

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