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Talking Biz News Today — Sept. 28, 2017

TBNTBNSome of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Police drag woman off Southwest Airlines flight, by David Koenig

Traffic in U.S. cities is costing commuters, by Dee-Ann Durbin

Bloomberg

Lynn Tilton wins SEC fraud trial she fought to avoid, by Bob Van Voris and Matt Robinson

Equifax to offer free credit freezes for life, new CEO says, by Jennifer Surane

Fortune

Corporate America desperately craves tax reform. Here’s why CEOs are worried, by Shawn Tully

Where high-tech meets high-touch, by Clifton Leaf

Reuters

Wall St. gains on financials boost, tax hopes, by Chuck Mikolajczak

Royal Bank of Canada using blockchain for U.S./Canada payments, by Matt Scuffham

News about business journalism

Bloomberg signs first advertisers for its Twitter network

Cole returning to WSJ as director of video content

WSJ hires Prang to cover breaking news

FT warns advertisers of fake ad sales for its site

Fox Business hits ratings highs while CNBC hits lows

This date in business journalism

2012: WSJ names new banking reporting team

2007: Fox Business to launch web site preview next week

Business journalism birthdays

Sept. 28: Andrew Westney of Law360.com

Sept. 28: Lauren Tara LaCapra of Reuters

Sept. 28: James Nelson of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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.

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