Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Nov. 22, 2016

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

How Kellogg worked with “independent experts” to tout cereal, by Candice Choi

U.S. moves to block mining near Yellowstone, by Matthew Brown

Fortune

Amazon isn’t just gunning for Netflix, it’s going after ESPN too, by Mathew Ingram

Chipotle gets sued after customers find out its chorizo burrito is more than 300 calories, by Michal Addady

MarketWatch.com

Apple faces a decade of uncertainty after next year’s iPhone, by Jennifer Booton

Share buybacks will return with a vengeance next year, by Ciara Linnane and Tomi Kilgore

Reuters

Tyson shares dive on CEO departure, dim 2017 outlook, by Lisa Baertlein and Sruthi Ramakrishnan

AT&T signs on Fox for DirectTV Now, by Jessica Toonkel

News about business journalism

MarketWatch.com lays off five editorial staffers

VandeHei’s new site hires FCC spokeswoman to oversee tech coverage

How Reuters uses new technology to tell stories

Financial Times is in talks to make digital acquisitions

The date in business journalism

2011: Colarusso to be global head of programming at Reuters

2006: Washington Post brings back some stock listings

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.