Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Sept. 7, 2018

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones, Infowars, citing abuse, by Barbara Ortutay

Intent on getting a big raise? You may have to quit your job, by Christopher Rugaber

Bloomberg

The gun business is bouncing back from a long Trump slump, by Polly Mosendz

Short seller Andrew Left sues Musk, Tesla for securities fraud, by Joel Rosenblatt

Fortune

It’s rude to wait more than 20 minutes to reply to a text, Google research says, by Kevin Kelleher

Security tokens get a boost as PayPal exec joins Ox board, by Jeff John Roberts

Reuters

Apple to provide online tool for police to request data, by Stephen Nellis

JD.com investors spooked by “key man risk” after CEO accused of rape, by Jennifer Hughes and Adam Jourdan

News about business journalism

CNBC.com hires Rodriguez to cover Facebook

Richmond daily starting newsletter on local startup community

Call hired as D CEO managing editor

FT names Crow its banking editor

Quartz reporter Stolzoff to cover tech’s impact on work and jobs

Reporter Mozee has left MarketWatch.com

Entertainment biz site The Wrap to add subscription product

Cheddar starting ChedHER, a business news show for women

This date in business journalism

2013: Louisville TV station hires business reporter

2008: WSJ to overhaul “Heard on the Street” column

Business journalism birthdays

Sept. 7: Greg Zuckerman of Wall Street Journal

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.