Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Oct. 28, 2016

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Amazon courts food shoppers, by Mae Anderson

Twitter cuts staff, kills off Vine app amid pressure to grow, by Barbara Ortutay

Fortune

Senators are now calling for clawbacks when executives do a bad job, by Lucinda Shen

The Senate just invited the wrong CEO to an AT&T merger hearing, by Jeff John Roberts

MarketWatch.com

LinkedIn’s growth is decelerating fast, by Jay Greene

Apple’s underwhelming Mac event was lacking in innovation, by Therese Poletti

Reuters

Qualcomm to buy NXP for $38 billion in biggest chip merger, by Narottam Medhora and Supantha Mukherjee

Dollar, bond yields rise on enhanced Fed rate hike prospects, by Shinichi Saoshiro

News about business journalism

Economist launches U.S. ad campaign

Personal finance editor Kiplinger to depart USA Today

The date in business journalism

2011: A biz editor getting into the Halloween spirit

2006: Minneapolis paper brings back stock listings for Saturday

Business journalism birthday

Oct. 28: Gail MarksJarvis of the Chicago Tribune

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.