Categories: OLD Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Aug. 16, 2013

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

Wall Street Journal top headlines:

Disney takes new stab at video games, by Ben Fritz

Sony grabs lead in race for Internet pay TV, by Amol Sharma and Shalini Ramachandran

Financial Times top headlines:

UBS poised to buy toxic asset fund, by James Shotter

SEC bars Conrad Black from directorships, by Henry Mance

Bloomberg News top headlines:

U.S. stocks fluctuate as investors weigh housing data, by Alex Barinka and Alexis Xydias

American Airlines-US Air block sends ripples through deals market, by Chelsey Dulaney and Beth Williams

Reuters top headlines:

Icahn seeks to fast track his Dell lawsuit, by Dave Warner

U.S. housing starts rise in July but miss forecasts, by Lucia Mutikani

CNNMoney top headlines:

Shrimp shortage leads to record high prices, by Annalyn Kurtz

Facebook testing one-click checkout for mobile shopping, by Julianne Pepitone

New York Times top headlines:

Easy credit dries up, choking growth in China, by Keith Bradsher

Vermont sisters with roots in news embrace small-town newspapers, by Christine Haughney

This date in business journalism:

2012:  Tess Vigeland, the host of the “Marketplace Money” radio show, announces she is stepping down.

2008: The Wall Street Journal begins a search for a new advertising agency.

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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