Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — May 6, 2019

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Berkshire Hathaway investors worry about life after Buffett, by Josh Funk

Atlantic City’s Ocean Casino is finally making money, by Wayne Parry

Bloomberg

One word grips the bond market before crucial inflation update, by Katherine Greifeld

How do-gooder companies can score cheaper loans, by Jacqueline Poh

Fortune

How Nashville is becoming an inclusive magnet for women chefs and restaurant owners, by Margaret Littman

Why Bog Iger deserves his $66 million pay package, by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Reuters

Ride-hailing drivers in New York to strike ahead of Uber IPO, by Joshua Franklin

Record-breaking rally leaves energy stocks behind, by David Randall

News about business journalism

Institutional Investor hires Bartalos to run RIA Intel

McLeod, former WSJ digital leader, dies at 60

FT has begun looking for a replacement for Barber

Wired’s digital subs have increased 300 percent in the past year

Barron’s names Rublin senior ME; Eule and Levisohn named deputy editors

Investor’s Business Daily hires Krantz

Why Yahoo Finance broadcasts the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting

Casey Foundation gives fellowships, scholarships for poverty coverage

This date in business journalism

2014: Sacramento Bee names new business editor

2009: Nightly Business Report co-anchor Kangas plans to retire at end of 2009

Business journalism birthday

May 6: Joe Nocera of Bloomberg News

May 6: Dan Kraut of Bloomberg Businessweek

May 6: Telis Demos of The Wall Street Journal

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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