East Valley Tribune cuts stock listings
The East Valley Tribune, an Arizona newspaper that serves the area around Scottsdale, announced that it was cutting its stock listings. The announcement comes on the same day that the local hip-hop radio station was sold, and business columnist Tom Gibbons makes a connection between the two. Gibbons writes, “Readership of stock listings has declined […]
KC Star to revamp its business coverage
Assistant Managing Editor for Business Chris Lester notes that the Kansas City Star will have a number of changes to its business section. The changes will be unveiled in the upcoming weeks. Lester writes in Tuesday’s paper: “Many newspapers are cutting back or eliminating stock and mutual fund listings altogether simply to save paper, and […]
Investor's Biz Daily redesigns markets page
Beginning on Tuesday, Investor’s Business Daily will come out with a redesigned general markets page, according to a news release from the paper. The page will include new stock market indexes that focus on the strongest emerging growth areas in the economy. The new tracking indexes are derived from IBD’s most popular stock screens–The IBD […]
Daily Record in New Jersey also cuts stock listings
The Daily Record, the newspaper in Parsippany, N.J., is cutting its weekend stock listings to give it more space, said Executive Editor Dennis Lyons in the Sunday newspaper. Lyons writes, “Our Sunday Business section has a new weekly stock-market-in-review feature, replacing the old list of stocks and mutual funds which, frankly, was taking up a […]
Wisconsin paper cuts stock listings
The Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper in Wisconsin announced Sunday that it will cut its stock listings, according to a column by Executive Editor Stewart Rieckman. Rieckman writes, “Beginning today, the normal four pages of stock and mutual fund listings in the business section have been streamlined into a single page. A natural outgrowth of our study […]
St. Pete Times makes small changes to its weekend papers
The St. Petersburg Times’ weekend financial pages will have a different look next Saturday and Sunday that the paper hopes will serve readers better, according to an announcement in this Saturday’s apper. The weekly mutual fund listings will move from Sunday to Saturday, a day earlier, where they will appear along with the weekly stock […]
Detroit News scales back stock listings, expands coverage
The Detroit News joins the litany of metro daily newspapers cutting stock listings. The News said that it will expand its coverage of the economy and other areas of business as a result. Other metropolitan newspapers to cut stock listings so far this year include the Orlando Sentinel, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, […]
Lakeland Ledger to cut stock listings
The Lakeland Ledger, a New York Times’ newspaper in central Florida, said that it would cut its daily stock listings with a summary of what happened in the markets. The move mirrors what its parent company’s flagship paper did last month and what other papers in Florida such as the nearby Orlando Sentinel have done […]
Iowa paper brings back stock listings
Apparently the readers of the Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier were not ready to give up their stock listings, according to a column by editor Saul Shapiro in Monday’s newspaper. He wrote that after the paper cut its stock listings, hundreds of readers called to complain. Shapiro writes, “But what may play on Broadway or off Michigan […]
Patriot-News considers cutting stock listings, expanding biz coverage
The Harrisburg Patriot-News in Pennsylvania is considering cutting its stock listings from three pages a day to one, but editor Tom Barstow says the space will be used to provide more business news to its readers. Barstow writes, “To me, it’s a hands-down decision. Why publish two pages of stocks that few people might need […]
