Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Nov. 13, 2020

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

709,000 seek US jobless aid as pandemic escalates, by Christopher Rugaber

Online shopping surge could lead to holiday delivery delays, by Anne D’Innocenzio

CNN

Fired Amazon worker sues over pandemic working conditions, by Brian Fung

The housing market is sizzling, and Rocket Mortgage is cashing in, by Matt Egan

The Wall Street Journal

At Disney, Streaming Soars as Other Businesses Struggle, by Erich Schwartzel

Palantir Boosts Its Full-Year Revenue Outlook, by Eliot Brown

CNBC

Grocery shoppers trade up from dried beans and rice to premium foods as Covid cases rise, by Melissa Repko

U.S. airline employment to reach lowest levels in decades after pandemic cuts 90,000 jobs, by Leslie Josephs

Reuters

Exclusive: Instacart taps Goldman Sachs to lead IPO at $30 billion valuation – sources, by Joshua Franklin, Anirban Sen

WeWork losses mount but ‘seismic shift’ in office use seen helping recovery, by Herbert Lash

News about business journalism

San Antonio Biz Journal, ABC station form content-sharing agreement

NY Times, ProPublica and Kaiser Health win multiple Loeb Awards

Einbinder promoted to senior reporter on Business Insider’s investigations team

New York magazine hires Hong to run Curbed

NY Times Sunday biz editor Summers hired by New York magazine

What was Quartz sold for?

SABEW selects Ho, Thomas for Sho Fellowship

Heltman named editor in chief of American Banker magazine

NY Times hires Robbins to cover COVID on business news desk

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