Allentown paper expanding Sunday business section

Robert L. Gentieu, the business and consumer editor at the Allentown Morning Call in Pennsylvania, writes Thursday about the paper’s plans to expand its Sunday business section. Gentieu writes, “So late last year, we launched a new business news website, Lehigh Valley Business Cycle, featuring all things business, including interactive content, exclusive local business news […]

FT Weekend unveils redesign with new content

The Financial Times is revealing a redesigned FT Weekend on Saturday as part of a new print and digital subscription bundle that combines digital access to FT.com and delivery of the Saturday newspaper. The redesign includes editorial changes, including: A redesigned front page;. A redesigned FT Magazine, introducing a new big interview that probes the […]

Institutional Investor unveils redesign

Institutional Investor, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, has unveiled a redesign of the magazine and its content. “One thing you’ll see us doing over the next year is really reorganizing the content along different lines,” said Kip McDaniel, the chief content office and group editorial director, in a video posted on its […]

Milwaukee daily cuts stock listings, standalone sections

Chuck Melvin, the assistant managing editor for business at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, writes about changes occurring in its business section. Melvin writes, “With far fewer people relying on print newspapers for stock and mutual fund information, we are reducing our Sunday financial tables to include only local companies and widely held stocks — providing […]

Rochester paper makes changes to biz news coverage

Karen Magnuson, the editor of the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, New York, writes about changes to the paper’s business news coverage. For the daily coverage, Magnuson writes: Local business news, including the local stock chart, will appear with other kinds of news instead of being on a separate page. The best stories will be […]

How Bloomberg Media is getting homepage traffic

Lucia Moses of Digiday writes about how Bloomberg Media is regaining traffic to its home page. Moses writes, “When it relaunched its technology vertical in October, Bloomberg decided to ditch the infinite scroll at the end of articles and send people to the vertical’s homepage instead. “‘The trend across media is the slow decline of direct […]

Entrepreneur magazine redesigns, cuts two issues

Entrepreneur launched a redesign with its latest issue, and the business magazine is also cutting two print issues a year from its schedule. The magazine combined its January and February issues and will also be combining the July and August issues, editor Jason Feifer told Talking Biz News in an email. “That’s become pretty standard in the […]

American Banker rolls out redesigned website

American Banker, which dropped its daily print edition a year ago, has rolled out a redesigned website on Thursday. Editor Marc Hochstein said the goal of the redesign was to “deliver a modern, user-friendly online experience.” “The new site is just so much cleaner looking and easier to navigate,” said Hochstein in an interview with […]

Illinois paper cuts printed stock listings

The Springfield State Journal-Register is eliminating its printed stock listings in its business section, writes executive editor Angie Muhs. Muhs writes, “In some cases, we conclude that most of our audience is accessing information or a service via means other than the printed page. “That day has come for the daily stock listings in the business […]

Connecticut paper cuts standalone biz section

The Day in New London, Connecticut has dropped its standalone business news section, according to a brief on its website. The item states, “Starting today, the daily editions of The Day will not contain a separate business section. Instead, local business news, as well as national business news, will run in the A section and […]