Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — June 28, 2017

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

New cyberattack causes mass disruption globally, by Raphael Satter

Yellen says reforms have made financial system safer, by Pan Pylas and Martin Crutsinger

Bloomberg

Tell selloff resumes; Treasuries fall with dollar, by Jeremy Herron and Dani Berger

Bill Ackman’s big triumph becomes his big problem, by Joe Nocera

Fortune

Under Armour appoints new president and COO, by Krishna Thakker

Apple buys eye-tracking tech firm for augmented reality, by Robert Hackett

Reuters

U.S. home prices for April rise slow than expected, by Chuck Mikolajczak

Google faces years of EU oversight in addition to record fine, by Foo Yun Chee and Eric Auchard

News about business journalism

A push to be more diverse at the WSJ

Honolulu Civil Beat hires Yerton as senior business reporter

Former CNNMoney exec Haris resigns after Russia story

This date in business journalism

2012: Forbes.com launches new home page

2007: Sasseen becomes BusinessWeek’s new DC bureau chief

Business journalism birthday

June 28: Lauren Thomas of CNBC.com

June 28: Meg Garner of Nashville Business Journal

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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