Newspaper owner to biz editor: Do what you want with biz section
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Talking Biz News recently reviewed a letter from a daily newspaper owner to the business editor of the paper. The letter, in total, read: Wont you kindly lay out the financial pages exactly as you would have them if you had full authority in the matter and if you wanted to […]
Florida paper adds business content
The Lakeland Ledger, a New York Times Co. paper in Florida, is adding pages and content to its business section. One extra page will be added to the business section on Thursdays to focus on personal finance. Three news columnists will be added to provide readers, specifically seniors, advice: The Savvy Senior; Smart Spending and […]
Arkansas weekly biz paper undergoes redesign
Arkansas Business, a weekly business newspaper, rolled out Friday its first redesign since 1993. A story on its website states, “Ron Reason of Chicago, an internationally known design, strategy and branding consultant, helped lead the charge to the new look. His experience includes redesigning the look of The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age and Crain’s […]
American Banker undergoes overhaul
American Banker has launched a redesign of its print newspaper and its web site, and says it will launch an iPad application by the end of the month. A story on its site states, “We’ve added an expanded Daily Briefings section to Page One to provide busy readers with a quick synopsis of the industry’s […]
Changes to Spokane business section
Gary Graham, editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., writes Saturday about changes to its business news coverage. Graham writes, “Longtime business columnist Bert Caldwell is our new Editorial Page editor, so we no longer have his authoritative voice on the Sunday Business cover page. Caldwell’s promotion prompted us to develop new ways to improve […]
Reuters.com gets another overhaul
David Kaplan of PaidContent.org writes that Reuters.com is getting another revamp that reflects the changes being put in place by Stephen Adler and Chrystia Freeland, the head of the Reuters News unit and editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, respectively. Kaplan writes, “In a memo to the staff attributed to Freeland and Keith McAllister, editor and […]
Bloomberg Markets overhauls design staff
Siung Tjia, who joined Bloomberg Markets magazine as the publication’s first creative director in April, has shaken up the staff. Four positions have been eliminated in his department, including photo editor Eric Godwin. However, two new positions were created by Tjia and filled. Amy Berkley is the new director of photography. She was most recently […]
Utah paper kills business magazine, puts biz content back in paper
Andy Howell, the executive editor of the Ogden Standard-Examiner, writes Saturday about the paper’s decision to shutter its Biz magazine and put its content back into the daily newspaper. Howell writes, “It worked out pretty well as far as general acceptance. Many in the business community liked the content of the magazine. However, Biz didn’t […]
Wisconsin paper updates Sunday biz coverage
Mark Treinen, the executive editor of the Wausau Daily Herald in Wisconsin, writes Saturday about improvements to the paper’s business news coverage. Treinen writes, “But if you pick up a copy of Sunday’s paper, you’ll see that we’ve added new features to what are now called our Central Wisconsin Business pages in the B section. […]
South Dakota biz journal undergoes redesign
The Sioux Falls Business Journal in South Dakota on Wednesday launched a revamped website and expanded distribution of its redesigned print product. The Argus Leader, the daily paper in Sioux Falls that owns the business journal, writes, “Carriers on Wednesday delivered 3,550 free copies of the Sioux Falls Business Journal to 648 businesses. There also […]
