Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Sept. 6, 2018

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

U.S. trade deficit widened to $50.1 billion in July, by Paul Wiseman

Judge cites picture of mice, lets lawsuit proceed, by Larry Neumeister

Bloomberg

Amex shares fall after report of FBI probe on forex pricing, by Kathleen Chiglinsky and Ivan Levingston

Tesla’s $1.8 billion of junk bonds hit lowest since 2017 sale, by Claire Boston and Natasha Rausch

Fortune

Goldman Sachs is reportedly backing off plans for a bitcoin trading desk, by Kevin Kelleher

Kratom Tea is the focus of a Florida lawsuit — and FDA scrutiny, by Brittany Shoot

Reuters

Nasdaq falls as U.S. lawmakers grill Facebook, Twitter executives, by April Joyner

Trump says not ready to make trade deal with China, by Robert Rampton

News about business journalism

How Callaway has turned around TheStreet.com

WSJ hires Story as editor, newsroom strategy

Barkin starts writing column for Business North Carolina

Forbes hires Ahmed to explore M&A, partnerships

Lynch, Honolulu biz journalist, has died

This date in business journalism

2013: Time and CNN to end CNNMoney.com JV

2008: Fox Business gets New York channel

Business journalism birthdays

Sept. 6: Rob Urban of Bloomberg News

Sept. 6: Kevin Drawbaugh of Reuters

Sept. 6: Rob Cox of Reuters Breakingviews

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.