Categories: OLD Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Aug. 19, 2013

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

Wall Street Journal top headlines:

Investigators focus on pilot procedures in UPS jet crash, by Andy Pasztor

Mexico’s Pemex looks to tap U.S. shale, by Jose de Cordoba and Laurence Liff

Financial Times top headlines:

Value of U.S. fuel exports soar, by James Politi

Bond yields rise as taper talk persists, by James Chisolm

Bloomberg News top headlines:

U.S. stocks fall as investors await Fed stimulus signals, by Ted Stoukas and Alex Barinka

Repo market decline raises alarm as regulation strains debt, by Liz Capo McCormick and Anchalee Worrachate

Reuters top headlines:

Boeing undercuts rivals in South Korea fighter contest, by Joyce Lee

U.S. pushes for more access to Japan insurance, auto markets, by Stanley White

CNNMoney top headlines:

India edges toward crisis as rupee plunges, by Charles Riley

The IRS is cracking down on small business, by Jose Pagliery

New York Times top headlines:

Public funds take control of assets, dodging Wall Street, by Nathaniel Popper

Most of U.S. is wired, but millions are not plugged in, by Edward Wyatt

This date in business journalism:

2012: The Arizona Republic in Phoenix decides to focus its Sunday business coverage on the economy.

2008: Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch.com show up on Blackberry.

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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