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Talking Biz News Today — September 5, 2019

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

US farmers hope Trump delivers on trade deal with Japan, by Kevin Freking, Paul Wiseman

NTSB: Autopilot flaw, driver inattention caused Tesla crash, by Tom Krisher

Fortune

The Future of Farming? No Sun, No Soil, But Lots of Data

Bill McDonough Calls on CEOs to Be ‘the Real Chief Sustainability Officers’, by Robert Horn

CNBC

Hurricane Dorian to cost retailers $1.5 billion and threaten back to school sales, by Jasmine Wu

Anheuser-Busch barred from using ‘no corn syrup’ labels, by Lauren Hirsch

CNN

Slack’s stock falls 15% after first earnings report since going public, by Clare Duffy

Hundreds of millions of phone numbers once tied to Facebook accounts posted online, by Donie O’Sullivan

Reuters

New York City sues T-Mobile over ‘rampant’ customer sales abuses, by Jonathan Stempel

Exclusive: In U-turn, Ford ditches plan to unify China sales system after partners push back, by Norihiko Shirouzu, Ben Klayman

News about Business Journalism

Hirschhorn departing Barron’s at end of the month

San Fran Biz Times reporter Kelliher hired by San Jose daily

Datoo named Bloomberg weekend editor

The Information wants to grow its ad business

Amon named WSJ law bureau chief

Sarah Toy headed to the Wall Street Journal to cover energy

Langley starts new job reporting on stocks at the Wall Street Journal

Financial Times reports profit growth from digital revenues

FT journalist Crooks departs after 20 years

Muse Abernathy named 2019 Welles Memorial Prize Winner

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