Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
For many factory towns, white collar job loss hurts the most, by Josh Boak
Mexico, Canada and others may be exempted from U.S. tariffs, by Ken Thomas
Bloomberg
Smith & Wesson owner stands ground against BlackRock queries, by Polly Mosendz
Boeing is likely to miss another tanker deadline, by Anthony Capaccio
Fortune
Amazon’s Echo speakers are spontaneously laughing, and users are spooked, by Jonathan Vanian
How Abercrombie & Fitch broke a five-year losing streak, by Phil Wahba
Reuters
S&P ends down slightly as U.S. talks tariff exemptions, by Sinead Carew
Goldman puts some London staff on notice for German move by June, by Sinead Cruise and Arno Schuetze
News about business journalism
WSJ hires Marconi as R&D chief and head of editorial lab
International Biz Times sites used code to commit ad fraud
How BC Forbes uncovered why executives were successful
CNBC names new anchors for “Closing Bell,” “Worldwide Exchange”
Griffeth named co-anchor of “Nightly Business Report”
NY Times hires Bloomberg’s Satariano to cover Europe tech
Mazzilli joining finance desk at Reuters
How The Economist is trying to attract more female readers
This date in business journalism
2013: Why business journalism is like sports writing
2008: Newsday wins National Headliner Award for business coverage
Business journalism birthday
March 8: Sarah Rabil of The Wall Street Journal
