Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — July 19, 2018

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

EU fines Google a record $5 billion over mobile practices, by Ryan Nakashima and Raf Casert

Fed says trade war downturn could pose challenges, by Martin Crutsinger

Bloomberg

Trump says U.S. may have separate trade deal with Mexico, by Toluse Olorunnipa and Jenny Leonard

CBS directors had prior talks on contesting Redstone control, by Jef Feeley

Fortune

Tech has opportunity in Europe’s Silicon Union, industry insiders say, by Clay Chandler

Marriott will eliminate plastic drinking straws at all of its properties in 2019, by Emily Price

Reuters 

IBM gets boost from new businesses, top estimates, by Pushkala Aripaka

S&P 500 climbs to over five-month high on strong earnings, by Stephen Culp

News about business journalism

Why a business journal published an entire issue on crime

WSJ hires Business Insider reporter Levy to cover hedge funds

A tech reporter who doesn’t use much tech

Money deputy editor Lim departs for PR firm

This date in business journalism

2013: CFO magazine makes mistake with its own 401(k) plan

2008: Burnett’s fast rise at CNBC

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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