Some Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Samsung’s Galaxy S8 phone aims to dispel the Note 7 debacle, by Anick Jesdanun
Dirty air from global trade kills at home and abroad, by Seth Borenstein
Bloomberg
Jeff Bezos is now the world’s second richest person, by Robert Lafranco
Volkswagen says it has EPA approval to sell repaired diesels, by Ryan Beene
Fortune
FDA rejects Mylan copycat of GSK’s asthma drug, by Sy Mukherjee
Lululemon says lack of bold colors to blame for slow start to 2017, by John Kell
Reuters
Ackman apologizes for Valeant losses, calls bet a mistake, by Svea Herbst-Bayliss
U.S. pending home sales surge to 10-month high ahead of spring, by Lucia Mutikani
News about business journalism
Testy biz news copy editor says cut the enthusiasm
How Baker of Reuters broke the SoftBank story
How Microsoft’s first PR person got the biz news media interested
NY Times biz editor Murphy promoted to associate editor
Bomberger, longtime biz journalist, leaves Houston Chronicle
WSJ’s Baker: I take staff concerns seriously
Forbes Media owner could be selling majority stake
This date in business journalism
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