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Talking Biz News Today — Sept. 8, 2021

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Report: Pandemic driving alcohol sales

‘Varsity Blues’ trial promises fresh insights in old scandal, by Alanna Durkin Richer

CNN

Apple loses a leader of its long rumored car group to Ford, by Clare Duffy

Bitcoin drops below $43,000 on El Salvador’s first day using it, by Anneken Tappe

The Wall Street Journal

Intel to Invest Up to $95 Billion in European Chip-Making Amid U.S. Expansion, by Asa Fitch, William Boston

Big Aerospace Contractors Bet On Space Refueling Startup, by Micah Maidenberg

CNBC

American Airlines pilots’ union plan airport pickets as labor tension over fatigue, overscheduling heats up, by Leslie Josephs

AMC attendance surpasses 2019 levels for first time during the pandemic thanks to Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’, by Sarah Whitten

Reuters

PayPal heats up buy now, pay later race with $2.7 bln Japan deal, by Sayantani Ghosh, Anirudh Saligrama

SEC threatens to sue Coinbase over crypto lending programme

News about business journalism 

Gerald Loeb Awards names finalists for 2021

Pollock of NY Times, Howard of ACBJ to receive Loeb Award

Vox Media is acquiring a podcast newsletter for The Verge

FT hires Ivanova as reporter for Moscow bureau

Hazlett, former WaPo biz copy editor and Maine biz editor, dies at 68

Horn to be digital editor for automation/emerging news at Bloomberg

Future launches The Money Edit website on managing finances

A former government official wants the WSJ to correct an eight-year-old story

Lowenkron to join Bloomberg as a reporter

Cranley hired as news editor at The Real Deal

NPR hires Ma as biz reporter

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