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Talking Biz News Today — March 15, 2021

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Pelosi pledges swift work on major infrastructure package, by Hope Yen

Labor movement targets Amazon as a foothold in the South, by Bill Barrow

CNN

Bitcoin tops the $60,000 mark, by Paul R. La Monica

Google and Microsoft are in a public feud, by Brian Fung

The Wall Street Journal

White House Weighs How to Pay for Long-Term Economic Program, by Kate Davidson

Turbocharged Economy Leaves Factories Struggling to Deliver Goods That Shoppers Want, by Paul Hannon, Bob Tita, Eun-Young Jeong

CNBC

Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year, by Kif Leswing

Dungeons & Dragons had its biggest year ever as Covid forced the game off tables and onto the web, by Sara Whitten

Reuters

Deliveroo aims to sell $1.4 billion of new shares in upcoming IPO, by Rachel Armstrong, Abhinav Ramnarayan

Roche agrees to buy GenMark Diagnostics in $1.8 billion deal

News about business journalism

Harassment of female tech reporters has chilling effect on coverage

Guest named enterprise editor of Rest of World

Greentech Media is closing after more than 18,000 articles

New Wired editor Lichfield says goodbye to MIT Technology Review

Bartiromo to host “Fox News Primetime” next week

Bloomberg News debuts LinkedIn show “Black in Focus”

Longtime CEO of Institutional Investor is stepping down

FT hires O’Dwyer to cover accounting

Quartz correspondent Avins is departing

WSJ “Counting House” columnist DeCarbo to depart

Salama returning to Wall Street Journal as a reporter

Browning hired full-time on NY Times tech coverage

CNBC promotes Javers, Tausche and Mui in DC

Morning Brew business editor Grant is departing

Fortune hires Quiroz-Gutierrez as a reporter

Hitt to cover money, labor and billionaires for The Daily Beast

Sky News taps Milne as business and economics producer

ETF Stream names Eckett editor

Furness joins Capital Monitor as sustainable banking editor

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