Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — July 27, 2017

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Samsung Electronics logs record profit on memory chip boom, by Youkyung Lee

Fed leaves rates alone but moves closer to selling bonds, by Martin Crutsinger

Bloomberg

Meg Whitman steps down from HP board, by Molly Schuetz and Brian Womack

Gilead still doesn’t get a deal pass, by Max Nisen

Fortune

Target isn’t worried about Amazon’s Whole Foods purchase, by Susie Gharib

Waze is coming to your car’s screen, by Kirsten Korosec

Reuters

Discovery in the lead to acquire Scripps Networks, by Jessica Toonkel and Liana B. Baker

Foxconn announces U.S. manufacturing plant in Wisconsin, by David Shepardson

News about business journalism

Bartiromo named a top digital influencer

Arizona biz reporter Carrasco named editorial writer

Cheddar is bringing Wall Street to Main Street

Mergermarket hires Fields as senior reporter

This date in business journalism

2012: FT’s digital subs pass print on global basis

2007: SF Chronicle biz columnist says goodbye

Business journalism birthday

July 27: Sapna Maheshwari of the New York Times

July 27: Katie Peralta of the Charlotte Observer

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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