Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:
The Wall Street Journal
Wendy’s CEO to retire; Finance chief tapped as successor, by Julie Jargon
At Volkswagen, a familiar figure returns, by William Boston
Fortune
LinkedIn will pay $13M for sending those awful emails, by Jeff John Roberts
Largest retailer bankruptcies of last decade, by Phil Wahba
Bloomberg
The three biggest challenges facing Jack Dorsey at Twitter, by Brad Stone
Yellen’s sway over rates puts her atop most influential ranking, by Rich Miller and Christopher Condon
Quartz
General Electric has a very friendly new activist investor–for now, by Max Nisen
Google just valued a would-be Bloomberg killer at $650 million, by Melvin Backman
Reuters
U.S. says BP to pay $20 billion in fines for 2010 oil spill, by Susan Heavey, Patrick Rucker and Emily Stephenson
U.S. service sector growth ebbs in September, by David Gaffen
News about business journalism:
Reuters hires Hunnicutt to cover ETFs/investments
How Barry Newman become the WSJ front-page king
BuzzFeed biz reporters win award for labor reporting
The business reporter who also writes murder mysteries
“Bloomberg Go” set different than CNBC, Fox Business shows
IBT launches Political Capital blog
Personal finance columnist Yip lived for her work
This date in business journalism history:
2011: How Steve Jobs changed business journalism
2013: Why Quartz is the future of business journalism
Business journalism birthdays:
Oct. 6: Josh Kosman with The New York Post
