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Talking Biz News Today — July 13, 2020

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Games maker Ubisoft shakes up staff amid misconduct probe

As beach towns open, businesses are short foreign workers, by Michael Casey

CNN

Get ready for an awful earnings season, by Paul R. La Monica, Julia Horowitz

Elon Musk just became richer than Warren Buffett, by Allison Morrow

The Wall Street Journal

Analog Devices in Talks to Buy Maxim Integrated for About $20 Billion, by Cara Lombardo

Target, MTV Blocked Ads From News Mentioning ‘George Floyd’ and ‘Protests’, by Patience Haggin

CNBC

Canada Goose CEO says experiential store offers a ‘break from the insanity of the world today’, by Lauren Thomas

Rivian raises $2.5 billion in aggressive plan to beat Tesla and Nikola with the first all-electric pickup, by Michael Wayland

Reuters

Coronavirus bringing record $1 trillion of new global corporate debt in 2020: report, by Marc Jones

Tesla slashes Model Y SUV price as pandemic weighs on auto sector, by Aishwarya Nair, Hyunjoo Jin

News about business journalism

How the Bagehot program changed Thompson’s life

Biz reporter named news editor at Washington state paper

Big Technology strikes syndication deal with OneZero

WSJ staffers want changes in race, policy and business coverage

How VentureBeat kept sponsorship revenue

Biz journal leaves civic group after leader disparages Black Lives Matter

Washington Post taps Siegel to cover Fed, domestic economy

Pratt joins WSJ as education bureau chief

Q&A: WSJ’s Zeisler talks about how technology is helping its journalism

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