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Talking Biz News Today — Aug. 14, 2013

Here is what business journalists are focusing on Wednesday as their top stories:

Wall Street Journal top headlines:

Stocks lose ground, by Alexandra Scaggs

UPS jet crashes in Alabama, by Valerie Bauerlein

Financial Times top headlines:

Paulson agrees to buy Steinway for $512 million, by Anjli Raval

Two traders charged in London Whale case, by Kara Scannell

Bloomberg News top headlines:

Pimco says now is time to buy emerging market debt after selloff, by Ye Xie

AMR seen imperiled in U.S. shift to block airline merger, by Mary Schlangenstein, Julie Johnsson & Thomas Black

Reuters top headlines:

Germany, France help euro zone exit recession, by Martin Santa

Watsa to hold keys to a BlackBerry deal, by Euan Rocha and Greg Roumeliotis

CNNMoney top headlines:

Apple tops $500. Thanks, Carl!, by Hibah Yousef

Bill Ackman disses Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, by Emily Jane Fox

New York Times top headlines:

BP sues U.S. over contract suspension, by Stanley Reed

FDA examining drowsy driving in the morning, by Katie Thomas

This date in business journalism:

2012: Marla Dickerson is named business editor of the Los Angeles Times. (Dickerson is still on the job.)

2008: Orlando Sentinel business columnist Beth Kassab talks about column writing. (She has since moved on to writing a metro column.)

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.

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