Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — May 9, 2018

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

How Google aims to simplify your life with AI, by Ryan Nakashima and Mae Anderson

China cutting U.S. soybean purchases in wake of tariff threat, by Christopher Rugaber and Dake Kang

Fortune

Pizza Hut expands beer delivery experiment, by Kirsten Korosec

20% of Americans say their next car will be electric, by Kirsten Korosec

MarketWatch.com

Why oil prices didn’t rally after Trump announced “powerful” sanctions against Iran, by Myra P. Saefong

AT&T confirms it paid Trump lawyer Cohen’s company for “insights” into administration, by Rachel Koning Beals

Reuters 

United Airlines in talks to buy wide-body jets, by Tim Hepher and Alana Wise

FCC chairman meets Sprint, T-Mobile CEOs on merger, by David Shepardson

News about business journalism

Dow Jones sued for selling subscriber information

Knoxville paper hires new business reporter

Recode’s Swisher “interviewed” fictional character on podcast

Bloomberg reporter Davis to take on JPMorgan beat

Business Insider’s Hadi hired by NY Times as news director for business

TheStreet meets expectations on loss, misses on revenue

Black Business Ink magazine celebrates 15 years

California paper hires new business editor

Seeking Alpha hires Kiesche as senior editor

This date in business journalism

2013: Goldman Sachs confronts Bloomberg about reporter snooping

2008: Murdoch: WSJ is better, but has long way to go

Business journalism birthday:

May 9: Nathaniel Popper of The New York Times

May 9: Nathan DiCamillo of American Banker

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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