Talking Biz News Today — Dec. 21, 2020

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Congress seals agreement on $900 billion COVID relief bill, by Andrew Taylor

US airport traffic rising despite holiday travel warnings, by Michael Liedtke

CNN

Massive SolarWinds hack has big businesses on high alert, by Rishi Iyengar

Tesla is about to become the top S&P 500 stock. It’s not even close, by Paul R. La Monica

The Wall Street Journal

Thoma Bravo Agrees to Buy RealPage for $9.6 Billion, by Miriam Gottfried, Cara Lombardo

Chip Giants Intel and Nvidia Face New Threats From Amazon to Google to Apple, by Asa Fitch

CNBC

Airlines on track to get $15 billion in federal aid, must call back more than 32,000 furloughed workers, by Leslie Josephs

Winnebago CEO expects pent-up demand to propel Covid boom in RV sales in 2021, by Kevin Stankiewicz

Reuters

Amazon shuts New Jersey facility till Dec. 26 on virus spike among workers

U.S. shoppers grab last-minute holiday gifts, pick up online orders in-store, by Melissa Fares

News about business journalism

The Bloomberg journalist who fell in love with Martin Shkreli

Koppisch hired as AME of Discourse

Bloomberg, Chicago Sun-Times win NABJ awards for business coverage

Montgomery named biz editor of Dubuque paper

NY Post corrects usage of Black CEO as a “criminal”

Puget Sound Business Journal hires Morgan to cover tech

Business in Vancouver to begin charging for content

Olanoff returns to TechCrunch to work on Extra Crunch

Fox Business has highest ratings ever in 2020

Press Herald names LaClaire to cover business

Longtime Reuters bureau chief and correspondent Baker has left

FT journalists stop pay talks after Barber’s compensation revealed