Talking Biz News Today – Sept. 29, 2015

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

Alcoa to split as aluminum glut pressures prices, by John W. Miller

Google tries to make its cars drive more like humans, by Alistair Barr and Mike Ramsey

Quartz

Mining giant Glencore’s shares just got Volkswagen’d, by Melvin Backman

NASA finds its “strongest evidence yet” that water flows on Mars, by Akshat Rathi

Bloomberg

Why Shell quit drilling in the arctic, by Paul Barrett 

The more Yellen talks up inflation, the less traders believe her, by Alexandra Scaggs and Daniel Kruger

Reuters

Apple reports record sales of iPhone 6s, 6s Plus in first weekend, by Julia Love

JetBlue expands U.S.-Cuba service ahead of expected travel opening, by Daniel Trotta

The Associated Press

US consumer spending up 0.4 percent in August, by Marin Crutsinger

Shell move dims oil prospects, delights environmentalists, by Dan Joling and Jonathan Fahey

News about business journalism:

The FT and its future under Nikkei

Don’t expect sponsors of NY Times biz content

AP, Star Tribune and Palm Beach Post win Barlett & Steele

FT journalists ask Nikkei to guarantee independence

LA Times hires Koren as banking/finance reporter

Bloomberg’s Rubin leaving for WSJ

FT to publish paid posts

Bloomberg names new First Word executive editor

Bloomberg’s Armstrong leaving for Stat

This date in business journalism history:

2014: The elevator pitch as business journalism

2008: Time to call a crash a crash

Business journalism birthdays:

Sept. 29: Peter Grant with The Wall Street Journal

Sept. 29: Steve Lohr with The New York Times