OLD Media News

Talking Biz News Today — April 8, 2021

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

US jobless claims up to 744K as virus still forces layoffs, by Paul Wiseman

Biden seeks a new view of infrastructure, far beyond asphalt, by Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen

CNN

500 million LinkedIn users’ data is for sale on a hacker site, by Clare Duffy

GM car prices surge as more plants close during the chip shortage, by Chris Isidore

The Wall Street Journal

Netflix Inks Deal for Rights to Sony Movies, Including Coming ‘Spider-Man’ Films, by Joe Flint

SoftBank to Invest $500 Million in Mortgage Startup Better, by Peter Rudegeair, Maureen Farrell

CNBC

National Guard urges U.S. to follow health measures as military races to vaccinate population, by Amanda Macias

More than half of older millennials with student debt say their loans weren’t worth it, by Abigail Johnson Hess

Reuters

Boeing sues, cancels contracts with Air Force One supplier, by David Shepardson, Mike Stone

McDonald’s to hire 25,000 staff in Texas this month

News about business journalism

CNET’s Bakalar moving to games division at Red Ventures

WSJ’s Ngo hired by Hearst CT/Times-Union

Lambert named editorial director of Fortune Education

OneZero senior editor Merchant departs

Forbes NFT cover sells for $333,333

Remote Report to cover the business of remote work

Concannon hired by NPR’s “Planet Money”

Ramsay joining “Bloomberg Surveillance” as associate producer

AP, WSJ, BusinessWeek, Fortune among Deadline Club Award finalists

Mullin departs Medium’s OneZero

Worth magazine, online during pandemic, returns to print

Irina Slav

Recent Posts

PCWorld executive editor Ung dies at 58

PCWorld executive editor Gordon Mah Ung, a tireless journalist we once described as a founding father…

14 hours ago

CNBC taps Sullivan as “Power Lunch” co-anchor

CNBC senior vice president Dan Colarusso sent out the following on Monday: Before this year comes to…

2 days ago

Business Insider hires Brooks as standards editor

Business Insider editor in chief Jamie Heller sent out the following on Monday: I'm excited to share…

2 days ago

Is this the end of CoinDesk as we know it?

Former CoinDesk editorial staffer Michael McSweeney writes about the recent happenings at the cryptocurrency news site, where…

2 days ago

LinkedIn finance editor Singh departs

Manas Pratap Singh, finance editor for LinkedIn News Europe, has left for a new opportunity…

3 days ago

Washington Post announces start of third newsroom

Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Friday: Dear All, Over the last…

4 days ago