Talking Biz News Today – Aug. 29, 2022

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

The Associated Press

Low fuel inventories cause special concern in US Northeast, by David Sharp

‘Tape or chewing gum:’ Twitter’s lapses echo worldwide, by Barbara Ortutay

CNN

Layoffs. Losses. Plunging share prices. These pandemic winners are now struggling, by Chris Isidore

Ford is raising the price of its electric SUV as much as $8,000, by Peter Valdes-Dapena

The Wall Street Journal

Latest Covid Boosters Are Set to Roll Out Before Human Testing Is Completed, by Liz Essley Whyte

Airlines Keep Flight Cuts, Other Curbs as Industry Woes Drag On, by Alison Sider, Benjamin Katz and Stuart Condie

CNBC

NASA is set to launch the Artemis 1 mission on its most powerful rocket yet — here’s what you should know, by Michael Sheetz

Where Amazon is heading in health after the Amazon Care failure, by Eric Rosenbaum

Reuters

Walmart offers to buy S.African retailer Massmart in $377 million deal, by Nqobile Dludla

Dollar hits 20-year high as markets hunker down for higher rates for longer, by Dhara Ranasinghe

News about business journalism:

Saracevic, former SF Chronicle biz editor, dies at 52

Bloomberg hires Henderson as cross-asset reporter in Australia

Sacramento Bee hires Miller to cover economic mobility

Startup Payload aims to cover the aerospace industry

Bloomberg Industry hires Belloni to cover health care policy

Gardizy moves to tech and innovation beat at Boston Globe

Rockeman to cover retailers for Bloomberg News

NBC News hires Hurley from Reuters

Kohli becomes GA biz reporter for Boston Globe

How The Economist attracts readers with Instagram

Insider Media names Ward editor of biz magazine