Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:
The Associated Press
Supreme Court weighs Biden student loan plan worth billions, by Mark Sherman
Computer chip funding to require security, worker benefits, by Josh Boak
CNN
Telecom giant to cut 8,500 jobs, by Olesya Dmitracova
Thomas H. Lee, pioneer of leveraged buyouts, is dead at 78, by Chris Isidore
The Wall Street Journal
The Truth About the Four-Day Workweek, From People Who Have Tried It, by Gretchen Tarrant
Americans in Their 30s Are Piling On Debt, by Gina Heeb and AnnaMaria Andriotis
CNBC
Ford suspends electric F-150 Lightning production for another week following battery fire, by Michael Wayland
Reuters
Moderna to make milestone payments to NIH for COVID vaccine
Twitter lays off at least 50 in relentless cost cuts, The Information reports
News about business journalism:
San Diego Biz Journal hires Kastner to cover health care
Verge and STAT among ASME finalists
Bloomberg taps Tse to cover activists
Bloomberg hires Yahoo Finance’s Semenova as a markets reporter
Three ed desk moves at WaPo, new NewsNation app, Friday’s roundup of top stories
Polk Award winners, NewsWhip bolsters NY staff, Arizona pub departs: TBN Ticker for Feb. 24
NewsNation debuts connected-TV app
How Sifted develops its editorial staff
Chan hired by International Financing Review to cover ESG
How the FT is leading the way by hiring an AI editor
Nusca, ex-Morning Brew and Fortune, hired by Activision Blizzard
Axios hires Curi to cover tech policy
Bloomberg hires Reinicke to cover markets
NYT fires up Formula One coverage, Kansas City Star names exec editor, new Toronto Star reporter
Qwoted 100: Kathryn Boudreau (rhymes with pro) of Spread Great Ideas
Ohio local paper to cut back on print days
The Athletic debuts Formula One coverage
FT hires visual journalist Rodgers
Marques named ME for Asia energy and commodities at Bloomberg
What Bloomberg TV’s Lacqua learned from her journalist father
Prairie Business hires McDermott as editor