Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Sept. 26, 2018

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Into the fold? What’s next for Instagram as founders leave, by Barbara Ortutay

NTSB faults Air Canada’s pilots for last year’s near disaster, by David Koenig

Bloomberg

SurveyMonkey raises $180 million in U.S. initial public offering, by Alex Barinka

Tech giants spend $80 billion to make sure no one else can compete, by Shira Ovide

Fortune

Nike stock dropped 4% after its earnings report was released, by Kevin Kelleher

Goldman Sachs wants to be a tech company. Here’s why it won’t be easy, by Lucinda Shen

Reuters

Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing its secrets to help Intel, by Stephen Nellis

U.S. trade chief says China policy change “not going to be easy,” by David Lawder

News about business journalism

Bloomberg TV markets reporter Hyman has left

MLex hires CQ Roll Call’s Ota to cover taxes

WSJ names deputy banking editor, makes other changes to finance team

Consumer Reports is headed to TV with NBC show

How companies treat elderly workers is a ProPublica beat

Passman named editor of Credit Union Journal

The business media and its nostalgia for the crisis

Kirkpatrick to oversee special projects, investigations at Consumer Reports

Bloomberg Media CEO Smith: We’re growing because we take risks

This date in business journalism

2013: Bloomberg News names senior executive editors

2008: The Financial Times still holds big scoops for print

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.