Connecticut paper moves stock listings to Saturday
The New London Day in Connecticut is moving its printed stock listings from Sunday to Saturday. A brief states, “The Day’s Sunday markets page, which includes end-of-week prices for stocks and mutual funds, along with a markets summary, will be moving to the Saturday edition beginning on Feb. 26. “The change is the result of […]
North Carolina paper ME explains biz coverage changes
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Carol Hanner, the managing editor of the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina, explained to Talking Biz News the recent changes made to its business coverage, including an expanded Sunday business section. “Our new Sunday business section has added a local Q&A or business profile in addition to the Sunday cover story […]
Ohio paper cuts stock listings
The Coshocton Tribune newspaper in Ohio is cutting its daily printed stock listings. Managing editor Len LeCara writes, “Beginning today, we will run a weekly roundup of local stock listings. We eliminated the weekday listings to give us more space to run local items.” The move continues a trend where the smaller dailies and weeklies […]
Oregonian cuts weekend listings
The Oregonian, the daily newspaper in Portland, has cut its weekend stock and mutual fund listings from the paper, effective this weekend. Therese Bottomly, the paper’s managing editor, writes, “The weekly roundup of stocks will no longer appear in Saturday’s Business section, starting with today’s edition of The Oregonian. The same is true for the […]
WaPo readers upset with biz section errors
Andrew Alexander, the ombudsman for the Washington Post, writes about some recent errors in the business section. Alexander writes, “On the Wednesday before Christmas, the entire half-page package of listings for the financial markets was repeated from the previous day. Every chart and index, from the Dow Jones Industrials to currency rates to commodities prices, […]
Biz readers want stock data, not big pictures
Derek Donovan, the reader’s representative at the Kansas City Star, writes about the response the paper got to its Thursday business section front. Donovan writes, “I had to laugh to myself at this morning’s news meeting during the critique of the day’s paper. While reviewing pages from the print edition, a few editors noted the […]
Reuters launches new financial news service for papers
Reuters announced Thursday it will offer automated delivery of customizable, print-ready financial data layouts to U.S. newspapers at what it calls “an attractive price.” The move puts Reuters in competition with the “Money & Markets” product offered by the Associated Press. The offering, Reuters Financial Infographics (RFI), provides camera-ready pages and graphs that can be […]
NC paper drops stock listings
Lee Barnes, the editor of the Hickory Daily Record in North Carolina, writes Sunday about the decision to drop printed stock listings from the paper. Barnes writes, “Did you notice that we no longer have the stock market listings in our newspaper? “Judging by reader response, you probably didn’t. We had 30 people call to […]
Release the pounds!!!
Los Angeles Times reader representative Deirdre Edgar writes about changes made to the paper recently in the wake of reader complaints. Edgar writes, “Cuts to the Daily Market Roundup in the Business section have drawn a number of calls and e-mails as well. One specific source of puzzlement was the elimination of the British pound […]
New York paper changes financial data
The Albany Times Union in upstate New York said Friday that it has updated its financial data in its business section, with expanded currency exchange rates, additional commodities prices and a summary of the best and worst performing local company stocks A brief in the paper states, “Called ‘Markets at a Glance,’ the new presentation […]
