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Little Rock paper scissors Monday biz section

October 23, 2017

Posted by Chris Roush

Arkansas Democrat GazetteThe Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has cut its Monday business news section, reports Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times.

Brantley reports, “Did your Monday morning Arkansas Democrat-Gazette include a business section?

“Mine didn’t.

“I suspect that’s a permanent change, though I saw no notice of it in the newspaper. There WAS an announcement Saturday that a former feature of the Monday section, a syndicated computer column, would now appear on Saturday and that the bankruptcy listing, once also a Monday feature, would henceforth appear Sunday. I took that as a signal of the coming demise of the Monday business section, but expected a formal announcement of some sort. I didn’t get a response from a news executive I queried by e-mail about the change.

“UPDATE: New business editor Jim Kordsmeier confirms that the Monday business section is no more.”

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