Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — March 18, 2019

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Germany’s Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank hold talks on merger, by Geir Moulson

Apple Watch may spot heart problem, but more research needed, by Lauran Neergaard

Bloomberg

Facebook’s vulnerabilities highlighted during a tough week, by Molly Schuetz

AirAsia’s CEO quits Facebook, citing New Zealand shooting, by Chanyaporn Chanjaroen

Fortune

Data sheet: Intel’s AI plan vs. Donald Trump’s, by Adam Lashinsky and Jonathan Vanian

Investing in China: All bets are off, by Clay Chandler and Eamon Barrett

Reuters

Fed looks to avoid cross signals at policy meeting, by Trevor Hunnicutt and Ann Saphir

Lyft to launch road show for up to $2 billion IPO, by Carl O’Donnell and Joshua Franklin

News about business journalism

Wired hires Oberhaus as a staff writer

Bloomberg Law hires Wheeler to cover health care/ERISA

Seattle Business hires Conroy as managing editor

Yahoo Finance to launch new series featuring women in business

Food & Wine starts business section on website

How Diane Harris transitioned from Money to Considerable

The WSJ is using data to improve the audience experience

This date in business journalism

2014: Fox Business announces show for Bolton

2009: Kansas City Star business editor leaving for chamber job

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.