Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today – Feb. 28, 2023

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

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