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
Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its…
Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe's…
In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish…
Ritika Gupta, the BBC's North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about…
Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a…
Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business…