Talking Biz News Today – Oct. 9, 2023

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

The Associated Press

Nobel economics prize goes to professor for research on the workplace gender gap, by David Keyton, Mike Corder and Michael Casey

Workers at Mack Trucks go on strike after rejecting tentative contract deal, by Tom Krisher

CNN

Delta will pay millions of dollars to settle class-action lawsuit over faulty refunds during Covid, by Ramishah Maruf and Pete Muntean

Why your mortgage rate is probably different from the ‘average’, by Anna Bahney

The Wall Street Journal

The Stunning Boom and Bust of a Tax-Refund King, by Ruth Simon

The Companies Bringing the Office to Remote Workers, by Harriet Torry

CNBC

Amazon launches first internet satellite prototypes, by Michael Sheetz

Novavax’s updated Covid vaccine can still catch up to Pfizer, Moderna shots this fall, by Annika Kim Constantino

Reuters

Amazon UK to spend 170 mln stg on staff pay rises

Netflix to end Kenyan free access plan after two years

News about business journalism:

Nededog, co-executive editor at The Wrap, departs

NY Times reporter Goldberg on covering the changing workplace culture

Worth Media hires Captain as executive editor

Saacks rejoins Business Insider to cover hedge funds

WSJ cuts staff in Hong Kong bureau

News Corp CEO Thomson compensation slightly down

FT’s Fund Fire hires DiCamillo to cover wealth management

How LinkedIn is the place to be for business news readers

Sraders swaps Fortune for FT-backed Sifted