Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
The New York Times
Greece’s feisty finance minister tries a more moderate message, by Liz Alderman
Shake Shack, born in a park, is going public with big dreams, by Michael J. de la Merced and Kim Severson
The Wall Street Journal
Super Bowl challenge for box makers: 12.5 million pizzas, by Bob Tita
Amazon delivers bigger-than-expected profit, by Greg Biensinger
Bloomberg
Cheap oil burns $390 billion hole in investors’ pockets, by Asjylyn Loder and Elizabeth Dexheimer
Ruble slides past 70 per dollar after Russia’s surprise rate cut, by Lyubov Pronina, Vladimir Kuznetsov and Ksenia Galouchko
Reuters
McDonald’s franchisees to new CEO: back-to-basics, fast, by Lisa Baertlein
U.S. growth cools in fourth quarter, but consumer spending robust, by Lucia Mutikani
News about business journalism
Bloomberg Business is a splash, not a redesign
Houston Chronicle hires DME for sports/business
Minneapolis daily names new business editor
Blodget: Business Insider goal is to be world’s biggest biz news source
AP boosts its automated earnings story output
This date in business journalism history
2008: Fox Business: We can use WSJ reporters for breaking news
2011: The problem with Fortune’s best companies list
Business journalism birthdays
Jan. 30: Katie Little of CNBC
Jan. 31: Andrew Dunn of The Charlotte Observer
Jan. 31: Jason deBruyn of The Triangle Business Journal
