Talking Biz News Today – Oct. 6, 2015

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