Albuquerque daily revamps online biz section
The Albuquerque Journal has overhauled its online business section. Assistant business editor Nick Pappas writes, “‘Digital First’ is the Journal’s new strategy for delivering a robust display of local, state, national and international business stories as they develop in a more reader-friendly format. “The goal is to publish business news online when it happens, distribute […]
Indianapolis Star expanding Sunday biz coverage
Alvie Lindsay of The Indianapolis Star writes Sunday about how the Gannett paper plans to expand its Sunday business coverage. Lindsay writes, “The new Sunday ‘Business & Jobs’ section will emphasize coverage of an area we know is increasingly important to our readers in Central Indiana — employment, the workplace and the economy. “We will […]
Nashville Biz Journal unveils redesign
Lori Becker, the editor of the Nashville Business Journal, writes Friday about the redesign of the American City Business Journals paper. Becker writes, “Business leaders need information fast. They can’t wait until Friday to get the news they need to make decisions. The NBJ fills that need. Our print, online, mobile and social media reports […]
How design helps Forbes.com increase traffic
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about why journalists need to work more closely with designers and how such work has increased the traffic at its Forbes.com site. Dvorkin writes, “This is a new way to consume pages, putting an end to pagination. In appearance, it’s simple. Under the hood, it’s complicated. […]
Minneapolis-St. Paul Biz Journal launches redesign
Tammy Mencel, the publisher of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal, writes about the weekly business newspaper’s redesign. Mencel writes, “While many in media continue to lament the emergence of digital news and the resulting disruption to the status quo, we have embraced it. Over the past several years, these tools have allowed us to grow […]
When daily metros began cutting printed stock listings
Twelve years ago this month, a major event in the evolution of business journalism occurred. The Star-Ledger in Newark cut its printed stock listings from its business section during the first week of September 2001. During the next decade, virtually every other metropolitan daily newspaper, and many smaller newspapers, would follow suit. That would lead […]
Georgia paper adding to its business coverage
John Gogick of the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia writes about the paper’s plans to expand its business news coverage. Gogick writes, “We added two pages from The Wall Street Journal in each Sunday Business section earlier this year. Based on the feedback we received, this was a very popular addition. “Starting Monday, we will return […]
Colorado Springs paper adds standalone biz section for three days
Joe Hight of the Colorado Springs Gazette writes about the changes that the paper is undertaking as part of a redesign. Hight writes, “So during the next week, you’ll see some obvious changes, including: “- The Business section will be a separate section with a new feature called Pikes Peak Bottom Line on Wednesdays, Saturdays […]
Yahoo Finance to get an overhaul
Yahoo Finance is slated to receive an overhaul as part of CEO Marissa Mayer’s mobile strategy, reports Garett Sloane of the New York Post. Sloane writes, “The company is retooling its popular finance product, which delivers stock updates and money news. “Finance is getting the full mobile treatment, much like the one Yahoo! developers performed […]
WSJ’s Baker on reducing size of “What’s News” column
Here is the memo that Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out Monday to the staff on the size reduction of the front-page “What’s News” column: Even as we become daily a more digital newspaper, increasing the reach and impact of our reporting, analysis and comment online and on our various electronic platforms, […]
