Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — May 30, 2019

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Ethiopian pilot pleaded for training weeks before Max crash, by Bernard Condon

Stock close lower, on track for first monthly loss of 2019, by Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga

Bloomberg

U.S. wants T-Mobile to create new competitor as part of deal, by David McLaughlin, Scott Moritz and Nabila Ahmad

The man who lost $35 billion in one year has some advice for Elon Musk, by Peter Millard and David Biller

Fortune

Sears buyer wants to skip $43 million payment owed to laid-off workers, by Chris Morris

Rihanna’s fashion collaboration with LVMH goes live, by Ellen McGirt

Reuters

Huawei challenges U.S. defense bill as sanctions fight ramps up, by Sijia Jiang

Exxon shareholders reject resolutions on on climate and separating CEO, by Jennifer Hiller

News about business journalism

Albuquerque Journal hires Hamway to cover retail and tourism

Quartz’s Gershgorn hired by Medium to write for its tech publication

San Antonio biz reporter moving to city beat

Washington Post hires Baca as breaking tech/business reporter

WSJ hires Bloomberg’s Somayaji to be Europe markets editor

WSJ, union to begin negotiating new contract next week

Reuters names Kim its U.S. elections editor

Barron’s set an all-time audience record in April

Fortune is raising its price, adding a paywall

This date in business journalism

2014: CNNMoney names Barbieri managing editor

2009: Layoffs at ACBJ paper in Hawaii

Business journalism birthday

May 30: Andrea Shalal of Reuters

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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