Another one bites the dust: Richmond drops stock listings
The Richmond Times-Dispatch, a Media General newspaper, became the latest metropolitan newspaper to drop publishing daily stock listings. The change will take place on July 15. Other metro newspapers to announce this year that they were dropping stock listings include The (Raleigh) News & Observer, Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, […]
Newspapers slow to embrace the web as a tool
Duluth News Tribune business reporter Peter Passi has an interesting story this morning about how newspaper circulation is declining, but the number of readers reading the paper on the Internet is increasing. He quotes a former newspaper executive as saying that the dropping of printed stock listings, but the use of providing those stock listings […]
N&O readers mad at dropped stock listings
The (Raleigh) News & Observer intentionally made some of its readers made by dropping its stock listings, noted ombudsman Ted Vaden in his Sunday column. (Fair Disclosure: Vaden is a neighbor of mine.) Vaden wrote that some readers stated that they would drop their subscription or be forced to take another paper. He also quoted […]
Utica newspaper cuts stock listings
The Observer-Dispatch in Utica, N.Y., has discontinued full-page listings of stocks and mutual funds that appear daily Tuesday through Saturday. They have been replaced with an expanded list of stocks of local interest, according to an announcement in the Tuesday newspaper. The paper joins dozens of business sections around the country that have dropped stock […]
N&O exec editor explains cutting stock listings
The (Raleigh) News & Observer’s executive editor, Melanie Sill, explained in her Sunday column why the McClatchy newspaper is cutting its stock listings during the week, and she notes that the paper started receiving complaints as soon as the announcement was made in the paper last week. Sill wrote, “Newspapers are evolving; we’re a print […]
N&O cuts stock listings, adds phone line
The (Raleigh) News & Observer announced in Thursday’s paper that, starting next Tuesday, it was cutting its stock listings, and adding a phone line for people without Internet access who would like to get stock quotes. Business editor Mary Cornatzer wrote, “The paper is replacing the Tuesday-through-Friday stock and mutual fund listings with a one-page […]
Jaffe: Demise of stock tables changes investing habits
MarketWatch columnist Chuck Jaffe, a former president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, writes a column Wednesday about the demise of stock tables within newspapers. He notes that he went to a SABEW conference about a decade ago when he was with the Boston Globe where the topic was discussed. When he […]
Boston Globe becomes latest paper to cut stock listings
The Boston Globe announced in Tuesday’s newspaper that it will join the long list of metro dailies cutting stock listings and encouraging readers to find stock price information on the Internet. Other papers to have made the change include the New York Times, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Rocky Mountain News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Orlando Sentinel and The […]
KC Star to cut stock listings, add space for stories
Chris Lester, the Kansas City Star’s assistant manaing editor for business, wrote in Wednesday’s paper that the business section will be cutting its stock listings once again — this time from 3,000 to 1,000 stocks daily — and will use that space to provide additional editorial content. Lester writes, “we will be able to devote […]
Responses to cut stock listings in Kalamazoo
The Kalamazoo Gazette recently cut its stock listings, and business editor Al Jones wrote a column in Sunday’s paper describing some of the responses that he received due to the changes. Jones writes, “Joan Watkins, of Kalamazoo, said she was unhappy about the change, but she did not lose her sense of humor. She asked […]
