Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — July 19, 2017

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Insurers slump as health care bill fails; tech stocks rise, by Marley Jay

Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs moves quietly into Main Street, by Ken Sweet

Bloomberg

Target CEO warns that Hispanics may be shopping less, by Matthew Townsend and Spencer Soper

This CEO wants Trump to nationalize the only rare-earth mine in America, by Sally Bakeswell and Steven Church

Fortune

Stop caring about the “hot” IPO, by Robert Hackett

Netflix execs defend big spending and show cancellations, by Tom Huddleston Jr.

Reuters

U.S. banks pay up for big deposits as consumers get pennies, by Dan Freed and David Henry

Americans want U.S. goods, but not willing to pay more, by Timothy Aeppel

News about business journalism

Antiquities dealer sues Wall Street Journal

West Virginia papers name new business editor

Can anyone topple Bloomberg and its market dominance?

This date in business journalism

2012: WSJ to introduce new weekly real estate section

2007: Liz Claman leaving CNBC; is Fox Business next?

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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