Talking Biz News Today – Dec. 5, 2022

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

The Associated Press

As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job, by David Klepper and Matt O’Brien

California lawmakers to meet, eye big oil’s high gas prices, by Adam Beam

CNN

Binance investigates hack affecting a number of crypto tokens, by Juliana Liu and Diksha Madhok

US economy added a robust 263,000 jobs in November, by Alicia Wallace

The Wall Street Journal

New Zealand Plans to Make Facebook, Google Pay for News, by Mike Cherney

Twitter, Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX: The Week That Ran on Elon Musk Time, by Tim Higgins

CNBC

Who will be Disney’s next CEO? Here are the top contenders to succeed Bob Iger, by Lillian Rizzo, Alex Sherman and Sarah Whitten

CNN lays off hundreds of staffers after business review − read the memo, by Alex Sherman

Reuters

Apple and Amazon resume advertising on Twitter, reports say

Amazon’s media chief Jeff Blackburn to retire

News about business journalism:

Semafor climate and energy editor Spindle departs over Chevron concerns

Biz journalist Leung hired as VP of content at ClickUp

Morning Brew hires Young to cover health care

WSJ hires James to cover private equity

Azevedo promoted to US news editor for Insider P&C

Policy editor Brandom departs The Verge

CNN has laid off two additional business journalists

Patel joins DKC as SVP in the Media Tech department

CNN media and entertainment biz reporter Pallotta laid off

Reuters’ Roy becomes editor at large for natural resources

Bloomberg promotes Datoo to equality editor

Corrigan becomes rankings reporter at WSJ

FT names Masters its US financial editor, Silverman to Nikkei

Davidson departing Politico for Bloomberg

CoStar hires Voros as its West Coast editor

Reuters hires Vinn to cover M&A