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Talking Biz News Today — Feb. 6, 2015

February 6, 2015

Posted by Meg Garner

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

The New York Times

With an apology, Brian Williams digs himself deeper in copter tale, by Jonathan Mahler, Ravi Somaiya and Emily Steel

Experts suspect lax security left Anthem vulnerable to hackers, by Reed Abelson and Matthew Goldstein

The Wall Street Journal

Strategic confusion put RadioShack at mercy of lenders, by Drew Fitzgerald and Matt Jarzemsky

Computer-driven, automatic trading strategies score big, by Rob Copeland and Laurence Fletcher

Buisness Insider

The extraordinary story of Nigeria’s $20 billion oil money ‘leakage’, by Tim Cocks and Joe Brock

Investors are funnelling a record amount of cash into Europe, by Mike Bird

The Associated Press

US gains strong 257k jobs, pay jumps; jobless rate 5.7 pct., by Christopher S. Rugaber

Sprint to set up shop as RadioShack files for bankruptcy, by Anne D’innocenzio and Michelle Chapman

News about business journalism

Huffington Post hires media editor

Bloomberg hires two in DC bureau

Reuters names two top news staffers

Bloomberg Pursuits to become younger, snappier

WSJ’s Albergotti resigns to join The Information

This date in business journalism

2008: If only we were all this lucky

2012: Doing video the WSJ way

Business journalism birthdays

Feb. 6: Henry Blodget of Business Insider

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