OLD Media News

Talking Biz News Today — June 8, 2021

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Automakers face a threat to EV sales: Slow charging times, by Tom Krisher

France fines Google for abusing ‘dominant’ ads position

CNN

Companies you’d never expect are offering signing bonuses to new employees, by Nathaniel Meyersohn

Americans are still sitting on loads of stimulus cash, by Julia Horowitz

The Wall Street Journal

U.S. Retrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers, by Dustin Volz, Sadie Gurman, David Uberti

Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos to Be on Blue Origin’s First Human Space Flight, by Matt Grossman

CNBC

Deutsche Bank warns of global ‘time bomb’ coming due to rising inflation, by Jeff Cox

Biden administration announces plans to strengthen critical supply chains, by Christina Wilkie

Reuters

Big tech supports global tax, but wants digital services levies axed, by Diane Bartz

U.S. must work with allies to secure electric vehicle metals -White House, by Trevor Hunnicutt, Ernest Scheyder

News about business journalism

Sportico hires Pelit to cover finance and private equity

Hollywood Reporter hires Chan as digital media writer

Forbes hires Everson to write “Checks & Imbalances” newsletter

Adweek hires Gold to be its digital editor

Blockworks hires Chittum as finance reporter

Turner named editor of Arkansas Business

Schleifer departs Recode to launch media company

Ro departs Yahoo Finance for Axios

Beat switch for Bloomberg’s Martinuzzi

Insider hires Mangalindan as entertainment correspondent

Mavin departs Dow Jones for Tortoise Media

NBC News business executive editor Shin departs

Irina Slav

Recent Posts

Is this the end of CoinDesk as we know it?

Former CoinDesk editorial staffer Michael McSweeney writes about the recent happenings at the cryptocurrency news site, where…

8 hours ago

LinkedIn finance editor Singh departs

Manas Pratap Singh, finance editor for LinkedIn News Europe, has left for a new opportunity…

2 days ago

Washington Post announces start of third newsroom

Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Friday: Dear All, Over the last…

2 days ago

FT hires Moens to cover competition and tech in Brussels

The Financial Times has hired Barbara Moens to cover competition and tech in Brussels. She will start…

2 days ago

Deputy tech editor Haselton departs CNBC for The Verge

CNBC.com deputy technology editor Todd Haselton is leaving the news organization for a job at The Verge.…

2 days ago

“Power Lunch” co-anchor Tyler Mathisen is leaving CNBC

Note from CNBC Business News senior vice president Dan Colarusso: After more than 27 years…

3 days ago