Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — March 8, 2017

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Losses for hospitals, drugmakers pull stocks lower, by Marley Jay

What the new Republican health care plan means for you, by Tom Murphy

Bloomberg

Apollo seeks $20 billion by May for new buyout fund, by Melissa Mittelman and Sabrina Willmer

Snap shares fall for a second day, by Drew Singer and Gregory Calderone

Fortune

This money manager just promised to pressure 3,500 companies over gender equity, by Lucinda Shen

Disney’s new “Beauty and the Beast” could break box office records, by Tom Huddleston Jr.

Reuters

Fed to make sequential hikes until “something breaks”: Gundlach, by Jennifer Ablan

Uber seeks chief operating officer to temper CEO, by Heather Somerville

News about business journalism

Consumer Reports hires former Detroit Free Press biz editor

Reuters Breakingviews makes three new hires

“Panama Papers” wins Scripps Howard business journalism award

WSJ video journalist Scheffler joins NY Times

How WSJ’s Mattioli broke the Precision Castparts deal story

Forbes rolls out new mobile site with faster download

Quartz names Karaian its global finance/economics editor

Cheddar hires two new anchors

The date in business journalism

2012: Crain’s Chicago names new editor

2007: WSJ looking to break more news on website

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.