Chicago Tribune to further trim stock listings
The Chicago Tribune, which last year cut its stock listings during the week, has now said it will trim its weekend stock listings, according to Editor & Publisher. The Tribune said that beginning Jan. 6, it would reduce the number of NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX and mutual fund listings, “and add richer analysis across more categories […]
WSJ.com to offer free stock center on web site
The Wall Street Journal announced Monday that it will offer a free markets data center on its WSJ.com web site beginning Jan. 2. Based on the announcement, it seems as if the Journal can be headed in two ways: It wants to take readers away from newspapers that have dropped market information from its printed […]
Free Press reducing stock listings
Add the Detroit Free Press to the list of newspapers that have cut their stock listings in the past year. In recent weeks, that list has included the Washington Post, Houston Chronicle and the Seattle Times. An item in the Free Press on Thursday stated, “The Free Press makes a change in its financial markets […]
Seattle Times cuts stock listings
Editor at large Mike Fancher wrote in his Sunday column that the Seattle Times would cut its stock listings beginning this week. Fancher wrote, “The Times will eliminate stock and mutual fund A-to-Z lists Tuesday through Friday. Instead, on those days, the Business Section will carry a Money & Markets page, with Northwest stock prices and […]
Washington Post brings back some stock listings
The Washington Post, which last week dramatically cut its published stock and mutual fund listings, is bringing some of them back at the request of its readers. A short notice in Wednesday’s paper stated, “Starting today, we will publish trading information on 1,400 stocks and 2,100 mutual funds. The list now includes shares of the […]
More than 2,600 readers complain about cut stock listings
Deborah Howell, the ombudsman for the Washington Post, noted in her Saturday column that more than 2,600 “vociferous” readers complained about the decision by the paper to cut its stock listings this week. Howell wrote, “The Post may be the last big newspaper to be doing this; most did so years ago. And most stockholders […]
Problem prevents Chicago Trib's running of mutual fund data
This was in Friday’s paper: “Due to production issues, the Chicago Tribune did not receive the top 25 mutual funds data that normally run in this space in time for the Friday edition. “Up-to-date mutual fund information can be found at www.chicago tribune.com/stocks. Full mutual funds listings will run in Saturday’s Business section. We apologize […]
WaPo readers respond to cut stock listings
Jill Dutt, the assistant managing editor of financial news at the Washington Post, took questions online Tuesday about the newspaper’s decision to cut stock and mutual fund listings, beginning with this morning’s paper. Readers pointed out errors and expressed their displeasure with the decision. A subscriber since 1989 from Clarksville, Md., wrote, “Whoever prompted you […]
The onslaught continues: Houston Chronicle cuts stocks
The Houston Chronicle joined the deluge on Tuesday, becoming the latest major metropolitan newspaper to announce that it was cutting its stock listings in an attempt to save space. Its cutting its stocks from three pages to one. Interestingly, it had been weeks since a newspaper had announced that it was cutting stock listings. But […]
Florida papers joining those cutting stock listings
The Scripps Howard newspapers along the East Coast of Florida, which include the Stuart News, the Vero Beach Press Journal and the Fort Pierce Tribune, stated in Tuesday’s newspapers that they are cutting their stock listings. Business editor Hugo Ottolenghi stated, “For that reason, we are reducing the number of stock and mutual fund listings that […]
