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Talking Biz News Today — March 6, 2019

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Holiday season defines winners and lowers in retail, by Anne D’Innocenzio

Industrial, tech companies pull US stocks slightly lower, by Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga

Bloomberg

Johnson & Johnson’s fast-acting depression drug approved in U.S., by Cynthia Koons

U.S. budget deficit widens 77 percent, by Katia Dmitrieva

Fortune

Target just posted its best results since 2005. Here’s how it’s winning the retail war, by Alyssa Newcomb

The video game industry is rapidly changing. The solution for “Halo”? Stay focused, by Eamon Barrett

Reuters 

GE’s CEO warns of negative industry cash flow in 2019, shares drop, by Alwyn Scott and Rachit Vats

Tesla blames misprinted label for China customs hiccup, by Sonam Rai and David Stanway

News about business journalism

Sacramento Biz Journal reporter arrested covering protest

Chief people officer of Dow Jones to depart

Fortune has hired a chief technology officer

WSJ to create new newsroom departments, add three dozen new jobs

Tilak, Reuters M&A and corporate governance reporter in Canada, leaving to freelance

San Diego Biz Journal hires Marroquin as a reporter

Dorning to take over ag beat at Bloomberg

Politico hires education reporter, taps editor for pharma coverage

FT acquires controlling stake in Dutch-based tech news and events company

Reuters: 57% of new hires in 2018 were women

This date in business journalism

2014: Peck named executive business editor at Huffington Post

2009: Stewart does to CNBC what television critics have failed

Business journalism birthday

March 6: Matthew Boyle 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.

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