Ohio business journal changes to monthly magazine
The Stark Business Journal, which has been published every other Tuesday as an insert in the Canton Repository in Ohio, is changing to a monthly magazine. David Manley, business editor of the Canton Repoistory, writes, “The new, monthly Stark Business Journal will be much larger. The goal is to continue to bring you an inside […]
New Orleans biz newspaper changes print schedule
New Orleans CityBusiness, a weekly business newspaper, announced Friday that it is changing its print schedule to once every two weeks and will launch a redesign in October. A story on its website states, “The every-other-week schedule is fairly common for other business news publications, including within the region, Blossman noted. It was the schedule […]
The chicken, the egg and the Quartz home page
Joseph Lichterman of the Nieman Journalism Lab writes about the Quartz redesign that includes a home page for the first time. Lichterman writes, “Pre-redesign, 90 percent of visitors to Quartz’s website arrived through article pages, with just 10 percent coming through the qz.com front door. Part of that is Quartz’s focus on social distribution of […]
Assessing the biz news site redesigns
Ricardo Bilton of Digiday looks at how some business news sites — Quartz, Fortune and Bloomberg — redesigned themselves to be more appealing. On Quartz, Bilton writes, “Qz.com is now home to The Brief, a summarized list of top stories from not only Quartz itself but other news sites as well. It’s a significant departure from […]
Quartz unveils new site, and first home page
Zach Seward of Quartz writes about the new design for the financial news website: Yes, the homepage is still dead, which is why our new front door is quite different from most. Now, when you come to qz.com, we are offering an efficient briefing on global business news, called the Brief. It’s intended to be read straight through, like […]
San Antonio Biz Journal seeks lead designer
The San Antonio Business Journal, an American City Business Journals paper, is seeking a lead designer. Reporting to the editor-in-chief, the lead designer ensures the highest possible design and story-telling standards are met by the San Antonio Business Journal on all platforms day in and day out online, and week in and week out in […]
Pittsburgh daily to launch standalone biz section
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette plans to launch a standalone daily business section next week, according to business editor Brian Hyslop. The section will be a full color section Tuesday through Friday. Sunday will continue to be a stand-alone section. And on Saturdays, it will be inside the A section. The Post-Gazette doesn’t have a Monday section […]
South Carolina paper to add Sunday biz section
The Spartanburg Herald-Journal plans to replace its Sunday Perspective section with a business section. The change will occur on Sunday, Aug. 10, confirms executive editor Michael Smith to Talking Biz News. “This will enable us to move the mostly wire commentary inside the A section and move the mostly local business content to the section […]
WSJ designer Pybas leaving paper
David Pybas, a designer at The Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years who was involved in at least four redesigns of the paper, is leaving. Pybas posted on Facebook that Wednesday was his last day at the paper. “I want to thank all the people out there who made it such a challenging, […]
How an online biz editor and a print biz editor work together
Earlier this month, the Richmond Times-Dispatch launched a redesigned business news section on its website and appointed Jacob Geiger, who had previously run its Work It site, to oversee the page. Geiger’s title is now online business editor, and he works with business editor Greg Gilligan on how the paper produces its business and financial […]
