Talking Biz News Today – Sept. 21, 2015

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

Uber meets its match in France, by Sam Schechner

Nike’s challenge: Staying ahead of the pack, by Sara Germano

Business Insider

Here’s every state’s unemployment rate, by Andy Kiersz

A former hedge funder left finance to open one of Hong Kong’s top restaurants – here’s her story, by Lucinda Shen

Bloomberg

Fed officials still see 2015 liftoff despite September delay, by Jeanna Smialek and Sarah McGregor 

VW orders investigation into cheating on diesel emissions, by Naomi Kresge

Quartz

Audi is going after Tesla in the luxury electric car market, by Mike Murphy 

Why Etsy engineers send company-wide emails confessing mistakes they made, by Max Nisen

Reuters

A divided Fed pits world’s woes against domestic growth, by Howard Schneider and Jonathan Spicer

Starbucks? OK. Lattes? No! Cuba business rules still complex after U.S. changes, by Nathan Layne and Lisa Baertlein 

News about business journalism:

WSJ regains softball championship

Forbes and drug lord Pablo Escobar

Louisville Business First added two reporters

Fear meets greed vs. entertainment at CNBC

Litigation on Fox Biz cancellation of reality series gets nasty

TheStreet lays off nine, mostly on business side

Vanguard fires employee who spoke to TheStreet journalist

Kanige named editor of TheStreet

This date in business journalism history:

2011: Tumblr collecting weird Bloomberg headlines

2009: BusinessWeek receives multiple offers

Business journalism birthdays:

Sept. 21: Pamela Yip with Dallas Morning News

Sept. 21: Alex Martin with WSJ

Sept. 21: Thomas Black with Bloomberg