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Talking Biz News Today — March 26, 2021

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

How two friends made art history buying a $70M digital work, by Matt O’Brien, Kelvin Chan

US jobless claims fall to 684,000, fewest since pandemic, by Christopher Rugaber

CNN

America’s most powerful oil lobby is changing its tune on a carbon tax, by Matt Egan

H&M and Nike are facing a boycott in China, by Ben Westcott

The Wall Street Journal

Suez Canal Backlog Grows as Efforts Resume to Free Trapped Ship, by Costas Paris, Benoit Foucon

Lawmakers Hammer Tech CEOs for Online Disinformation, Lack of Accountability, by Ryan Tracy, John D. McKinnon

CNBC

Broadway could open in September, as New York lays out plans to vaccinate theater workers, by Sarah Whitten

More than half of individual investors think the stock market is rigged against them, survey finds, by Sarah O’Brien

Reuters

Uber to reopen San Francisco offices with limited capacity next week

New wave of ‘hacktivism’ adds twist to cybersecurity woes, by Joseph Menn

News about business journalism

STAT News journalists to join Boston Globe union

FT adds Mancini to its pharma beat, names Kuchler its global pharma reporter

Bloomberg’s Quicktake hits 7.4 million monthly viewers.

Bloomberg reporter Vasquez departs for grad school

Politico hires Reyes as head of health care team

Variety executive editor for TV Holloway is leaving for Amazon

NLRB runs against “Marketplace” media production staffers

Dallas Morning News hires Walters for money beat

WSJ parent is acquiring Investor’s Business Daily for $275 million

Bloomberg Industry union: Women staffers are underpaid

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