Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Tariffs lift hope for jobs in American mill towns, by David Koenig
Former Equifax executive charged with insider trading, by Kate Brumback
Bloomberg
Fox News sued by slain DNC staffer’s parents over retracted story, by Bob Van Voris
Lyft strikes self-driving deal with North America’s top supplier, by Eric Newcomer and Gabrielle Coppola
Fortune
Toys ‘R’ Us set to close all of its U.S. stores, by Phil Wahba
Nectome wants to preserve your brain for decades, but the process will kill you, by Grace Donnelly
Reuters
Gazprom to cut hundreds of traders as Kremlin retreats from West, by Christian Lowe
Google, Apple face EU law on business practices, by Julia Fioretti
News about business journalism
SF Biz Times publisher to also be publisher of Silicon Valley Biz Journal
TechCrunch has launched its first redesign in five years
Sanicola hired by Insurance Insider
CoStar hires Carlisle to cover Texas real estate
How Quartz’s Detrixhe covers the future of finance
This date in business journalism
2013: BuzzFeed hires Reuters reporter Lauria to start biz section
