Famed European biz newspaper ditching pink newsprint

One of Europe’s leading business newspapers is set to ditch pink print, reports James Silver of City AM.

Silver reports, “Norwegian business paper Dagens Næringsliv, which opted for the pink newsprint back in 1989, has said that it can no longer afford the additional costs.

“Paper editions are still important to DN,’ the paper’s editor in chief told Norwegian media outlet Medier24.

“‘But print must be profitable. Now the cost of maintaining pink paper on weekdays is too great, and white paper is significantly less expensive. That is why we have decided to make this move now,’ Janne Johannessen continued.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.