Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Urgent question from small businesses: When will aid arrive?, by Joyce M. Rosenberg
Gas is cheap, but for many motorists there’s nowhere to go, by David Koenig
CNN
Ford to build 50,000 ventilators in 100 days, by Peter Valdes-Dapena, Jackie Wattles
Facebook is giving $25 million to news organizations, and spending $75 million more to help, by Hadas Gold, Brian Stelter
The Wall Street Journal
Macy’s, Gap to Furlough Most Workers as Coronavirus Crisis Keeps Stores Closed, by Suzanne Kapner
Medical Companies Win Approval for Rapid Coronavirus Tests, by Brianna Abbott, Micah Maidenberg
CNBC
US industrial giant 3M scrambles to meet demand for face masks as coronavirus spreads, by Robert Ferris
Burger King’s parent is giving cash advances and rent deferrals to franchisees, by Amelia Lucas
Reuters
Ad giant WPP pulls dividend, buyback and outlook, by Kate Holton
KFC owner Yum Brands breaks junk debt market’s four-week fast, by Joshua Franklin
News about business journalism
Engel leaves Insider/Business Insider for NBC News
Toronto biz publisher cuts 70 amid pandemic
ROI-NJ moves to online print publication
CBS hires Hughes as senior reporter for ZDNet/Tech Republic
Bloomberg hires Sykes as Middle East breaking news editor
Fortune magazine upgrades office
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The Austin Business Journal seeks a staff writer to cover economic development in one of…
A Russian court on Saturday placed Sergei Mingazov, a journalist for the Russian edition of…
Justin Nielsen of Investor's Business Daily writes about the newspaper's 40th anniversary. Nielsen writes, "When the…