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Talking Biz News Today — May 20, 2015

May 20, 2015

Posted by Meg Garner

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

The New York Times

Debate over currency cheating intensifies in trade, by Jonathan Weisman

Los Angeles lifts its minimum wage to $15 per hour, by Jennifer Medina and Noam Scheiber

The Wall Street Journal

Takata air-bag recalls expand to 34 million cars in the U.S., by Mike Spector and Gautham Nagesh

Theft of debit-card data from ATMs soars, by Robin Sidel

Fortune

Here’s why Yahoo! stock tanked on Tuesday, by Daniel Roberts

Travel sites band together against Delta, by Daniel Roberts

Quartz

Elitists may scoff, but “basic” clothes are a multibillion-dollar business, by Marc Bain

Hey, average American, here’s how you benefit from free trade, by Tim Fernholz

News about business journalism

WSJ is offering buyouts

Nerdwallet raises $64 million in financing

Houston Business Journal names new energy reporter

How the FT wants to change the media world

USA Today names new Money, personal finance editors

This date in business journalism history

2009: Forbes reporter not sure anything was missed in coverage

2012: Improving business coverage

Business journalism birthdays

May 20: Dan Beucke of the Orange County Register

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