Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
New York Times
Sumner Redstone trial captivates Wall Street and Hollywood, by Emily Steel
Two big labor unions share efforts to gain power and scale, by Steven Greenhouse and Noam Scheiber
Bloomberg
Herbalife soars after saying it’s close to FTC resolution, by Matthew Townsend
Credit Suisse banker case widens with 3 new suspects, by Hugo Miller
Associated Press
FDA will require e-cigarettes and content to be reviewed, by Matthew Perrone
Wal-Mart brings back greeters at the store door, by Anne D’Innocenzio
MarketWatch
Another boom in jobs — if not pay — is expected in today’s jobs report, by Jeffrey Bartash
China stocks slide nearly 3 percent on worries about looming bond defaults, by Dominique Fong
News about business journalism
WSJ parent reports quarterly loss on lower revenue
Wharton to hold biz journalism seminar on June 1 in San Francisco
WSJ sued for libel by Venezuelan politician
How the FT is getting more out of its newsroom experiments
Lawsuit settled in Fox Business reality show case
Crain’s Chicago hires new reporter
CNBC launches “World Markets Live” blog
This date in business journalism history
2008: Financial Times admits gender disparity in pay
2011: Burnett says goodbye to CNBC viewers
Business journalism birthdays
May 6: Joe Nocera of The New York Times
May 6: Dan Kraut of Bloomberg Businessweek
May 6: Telis Demos of The Wall Street Journal
