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
SABEW selects Ho, Thomas for Sho Fellowship
The Information has hired Ken Brown as senior finance editor. Brown was previously at the…
The Globe and Mail is seeking a New York correspondent to report from the heart…
The union that represents editorial staffers at Bloomberg Industry Group sent issued the following in…
City AM, a publication covering London business news, has confirmed it is ending its Monday…
Kimberly Johnson, former election editor at The Wall Street Journal, wrote a goodbye email to…
X has hired John Stoll, a former editor and Detroit bureau chief at The Wall…