Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Pay gap between college grads and everyone else at a record, by Christopher Rugaber
Judge denies bail for indicted Volkswagen executive, by Curt Anderson
Bloomberg
Lyft loses $600 million in 2016 as revenue surges, by Eric Newcomer
Pandora rallies as results top estimates, by Lucas Shaw
Fortune
Palantir’s bet on big pharma, by Michal Lev-Ram
Giant chickens pose a big dilemma for agriculture industry, by Beth Kowitt
Reuters
Amazon to hire more than 100,000 in U.S. housing spree, by Jeffrey Dastin and Emily Stephenson
Wall St. falls before earnings and amid policy uncertainty, by Sinead Carew
News about business journalism
Meyers named head of CNBC’s events business
Effron, company news editor at Reuters, has left wire service
Forbes to launch four new podcasts
FT’s Ridding says print still has a future
How Bloomberg’s Gurman got into tech reporting
Reuters EIC Adler: We need to be more transparent about our coverage
Reuters names global pictures editor
American Banker rolls out redesigned website
Langley, WSJ reporter who covered Trump, leaving paper for Salesforce
The date in business journalism
2012: Bloomberg View adds five staffers
2007: New columns in Seattle Times biz section