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Talking Biz News Today — March 11, 2014

Tuesday’s top stories:

The Associated Press

Bid of $1.8 billion suits Jos. A Bank just fine by Anne D’Innocenzio and Michelle Chapman

Reuters

Fox exec raises questions on Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger by Liana B. Baker

The Wall Street Journal

Congress to investigate GM recall by Jeff Bennett and Joseph B. White

Fortune

A star rises from Britain’s tech scene by Jonathan Weinberg

Businessweek

With Keurig 2.0, Green Mountain wants its monopoly back by Vanessa Wong

Bloomberg

Facebook’s share rally leaves analysts racing to catch up by Sarah Frier

Today in business journalism

How — and why — Bloomberg gets more women in its news coverage
A lot of people need to read the Wall Street Journal
Neil Cavuto celebrates 30 years of covering business
Kiplinger ponders its future

This date in business journalism history

2008: Conde Nast preparing to launch Portfolio and Wired in England
2006: Union attempting to organize Marketwatch employees

Business journalism birthdays

March 11: Robert Thomson of News Corp.

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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