Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
New screening begins for passengers on US-bound flights, by Jon Gambrell
Companies are looking for diverse ad teams to avoid blunders, by Alexandra Olson
Bloomberg
Alphabet tops profit projects after Google ad surge, by Mark Bergen
Billionaire founder charged in opioid bribery case, by Cynthia Koons and Jef Feeley
Fortune
Mattel sales plummet as Toys R Us bankruptcy takes its toll, by Kirsten Korosec
American Airlines leads the industry in complaints about racial discrimination, by Grace Donnelly
Reuters
Microsoft beats profit estimates on gains from cloud services, by Salvador Rodriguez
Amazon sales surge after Whole Foods acquisition, busy Prime Day, by Jeffrey Dastin and Aishwarya Venugopal
News about business journalism
Buffalo Business First publisher Connors to retire
Bloomberg cuts employees in media distribution unit
Study: Readers expect stock prices to rise based on positive news coverage, and vice versa
Steigrad hired by NY Post to cover media
Goodkind hired by Newsweek to cover intersection of business and politics
Bloomberg is big winner in EPPY awards
This date in business journalism
2012: From opera to business journalism
2007: Jim Cramer’s fighting words
Business journalism birthdays
Oct. 27: Ely Portillo of The Charlotte Observer
Oct. 27: Alexis Muellner of the Tampa Bay Business Journal
