Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — June 30, 2017

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

What Amazon wants from Whole Foods: Data on shopping habits, by Anick Jesdanun

U.S. blacklists China bank, revving up pressure over North Korea, by Matthew Pennington

Bloomberg

Tech stocks hit more turbulence than the rest of the market, by Oliver Renick and Elena Popina

Walgreen’s compromise gives it a chance to be bold, by Max Nisen

Fortune

Oracle, Palantir held acquisition talks, by Barb Darrow

Google releases its 20017 diversity report, by Grace Donnelly

Reuters

U.S. first quarter economic growth revised up on jump in consumer spending, by Lindsay Dunsmuir

Britain says Fox bid for Sky risks giving Murdoch too much power, by Paul Sandle and Kate Holton

News about business journalism

Bloomberg reporter Leising moving to LA

Dow Jones folds Heat Street into MarketWatch

Dow Jones names global managing director

WSJ editor: Yes, Trump lies, but beware using that word

Harloff named AP’s global markets editor

Tech site Motherboard retracts two Trump articles

This date in business journalism

2012: Dow Jones sells career services website

2007: A business magazine with a sense of humor

Business journalism birthday

June 30: Patricia Laya of Bloomberg News

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.