Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — March 3, 2017

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Caterpillar offices raided in probe related to Swiss unit, by Don Babwin

Drivers rebel against Uber’s price-cutting quest for growth, by Tom Krisher and Sarah Skidmore Sell

Bloomberg

Spotify hits 50 million paid subscribers, lifting music industry, by Lucas Shaw

Oil falls to three-week low as record U.S. supply outweighs OPEC, by Mark Shenk

Fortune

Slack just fixed a major security bug, by Jonathan Vanian

Costco is raising its membership fees, by Phil Wahba

Reuters

Banks paid $321 billion in fines since financial crisis, by Vishaka George

Boeing gets 1,880 union workers to take voluntary layoffs, by Alwyn Scott

News about business journalism

Retail reporter Cheng joins eMarketer

Stern, financial regulation editor at Reuters, is retiring

Wired wants to be a place for big tech ideas

How Kangas helped “Nightly Business Report” viewers

The date in business journalism

2012: Media too compliant with Apple

2007: When biz journalists anoint kings

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.