Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Oct. 23, 2017

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

New York advances drone industry with testing corridor, by Mary Esch

Judge tosses $417M award against Johnson & Johnson, by Robert Jablon

Bloomberg

How Saudi Arabia is building its $2 trillion fund, by Sarah Algethami

This $14 million home in Atlanta with bunker is “safest in America,” by Sara Clemence

Fortune

Tesla reaches deal to build factory in China, by David Z. Morris

WhatsApp launches live location feature, by Tom Huddleston Jr.

Reuters

Recent hurricanes take toll on quarterly earnings, by Noel Randewich

Airbus turmoil overshadows bid to save CSeries, by Tim Hepher

News about business journalism

How The Economist covers come alive

Little Rock daily names new business editor

American Banker names DC bureau chief, tech editor

Barron’s hires Cane as news and features editor

Bloomberg TV makes changes, creates Newsmakers team

Tech news site The Information is doubling its editorial staff

FT’s Lynch joins Washington Post to cover economy

Another Chinese company eyes stake in Forbes

This date in business journalism

2012: WSJ staff abuzz over potential editor change

2007: Fox Business Network stakes claim on NYSE floor

Business journalism birthday

Oct. 23: Anthony Schoettle with Indianapolis Business 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.