Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:
The Wall Street Journal
Farmers shift to leases, threatening to swell machinery glut, by Bob Tita
Sprint targets snacks, additional cost cuts, by Ryan Knutson
Quartz
Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal has spread to Porsche, by Ashley Rodriguez
Google wants to use drones to deliver packages by 2017, by Mike Murphy
Bloomberg
BlackBerry’s new Android smartphone could be its last device, by Gerrit De Vynck
CBS relaunches ‘Star Trek’ with series for web-TV service, by Christopher Palmeri
The Associated Press
ConAgra selling private label unit to TreeHouse Foods
Visa to buy Visa Europe in deal that could exceed $23 billion, by Ken Sweet
Reuters
Porsche, more Audi models pulled into VW emissions scandal, by Patrick Rucker and Timothy Gardner
U.S. on track to grow 1.9 percent in fourth quarter: Atlanta Fed, by Richard Leong
News about business journalism:
Forbes family sues Chinese investors that bought stake in company
NYT’s Nocera joining sports desk
FT starts email tech newsletter
Forbes expands its science coverage
Marketwatch.com hires LaMagna to cover personal finance
International Biz Times hires Dougherty to cover economics
Rubinger named Atlanta Business Chronicle publisher
Sterns hired as NBC/MSNBC business and tech correspondent
This date in business journalism history:
2011: FT reaches 250,000 digital subscribers
2007: Fox Biz Network “pretty good” from the first day
Business journalism birthdays:
Nov. 3: Diane Goldie with The Wall Street Journal