Nasdaq Pushes To Require Corporate Boards To Add More Women And Minorities The exchange wants to require listed companies to adopt the kind of diversity requirements now standard in Europe. Jim Zarroli
How Biden's Diverse Economic Team May Impact His Policies As President-elect Biden picks his economic team, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to economist Lisa Cook, a former adviser to President Obama, about diversity in the fields of economics and finance.
Amazon Reportedly Has Pinkerton Agents Surveil Workers Who Try To Form Unions According to documents, Amazon reportedly runs a surveillance program to track activism among its workers. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lauren Gurley of Motherboard magazine, who broke the story.
Biden Announces More Historic Appointments To Economics Team President elect Joe Biden has named his new economic team.
Critics Oppose Penguin Random House Acquiring Simon & Schuster NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to literary agent Laura Zats about ViacomCBS' decision to sell its publishing arm Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House in a $2 billion deal.
Famed New Orleans Live-Music Venue Adapts To Pandemic Robert Mercurio, member of the band Galactic and co-owner of the New Orleans music venue Tipitina's, tells NPR about how the pandemic will affect the future of live music.
Masked And Undeterred, Shoppers Line Up For Black Friday Sales Even as coronavirus cases surge in the United States, some shoppers can't seem to stay away from shops and malls on Black Friday. Alina Selyukh
News Brief: Biden's Cabinet And Civil Rights Priorities, Staying Safe On Black Friday Biden is expected to announce more members of his cabinet. His administration will focus heavily on civil rights. And, stores are changing things up to keep shoppers safe on Black Friday.
New Mexico Distillery Owners Discuss Closing Their Business Because Of COVID-19 Matt and Susan Simonds struggled to keep their Albuquerque distillery afloat over the summer during the pandemic. Now, they are among the tens of thousands of small businesses that have gone under.
Restaurants Reinvent Themselves For Thanksgiving And Beyond: 'You Just Pivot' A Japanese café sells plants and green-tea pie. An Italian restaurant caters a prime-rib dinner. A steak-and-fries chain delivers free meals for the elderly. "Fight or flight," one manager says. Alina Selyukh