Roanoke paper revamps Sunday biz section
The Roanoke Times newspaper in Virginia is introducing a redesigned Sunday business section this weekend with the name The Ticker. A blog post on its site states, “You’ll see it for the first time this Sunday, so we wanted to give you a sneak peak at what you can expect. As you’ll see, The Ticker […]
Prairie Business planning overhaul
Alan Van Ormer, the editor of Prairie Business magazine, which covers Minnesota and the Dakotas, writes about changes coming to the magazine. Van Ormer writes, “Over the next few months, we will be slowly integrating different ideas that include a new logo, shorter stories, monthly discussion on different topics like economic development, leadership, and technology, […]
Changes coming to Forbes.com
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes Monday about the changes coming to the business magazine’s site. Dvorkin writes, “Our new Channel pages — for Investing, Technology, Business and many others — launch in just a few weeks. You can see a current Channel page here, and a mock of the new Channel page […]
SmartMoney redesigns for digital age
Andrew Vanacore, an Associated Press business writer, reports on the redesigned SmartMoney magazine, which will occur when its February issue comes out on Tuesday. Vanacore writes, “Among the coming changes, SmartMoney will be focusing on fewer features and expanding the ones that it runs. “Readers are still interested in leaning back for a stretch to […]
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 […]
Illinois paper makes changes to Sunday biz section
Tim Landis of the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., writes Sunday about changes to the paper’s Sunday business section. Landis writes, “Most of the existing content — this column, the Ala Carte restaurant column, Personnel File, restaurant inspection reports, business profiles and features — will remain and even expand. But we plan to add more […]
Boise daily prepping biz magazine
The Idaho Statesman, the McClatchy daily in Boise, is working on a weekly business magazine called Business Insider. The magazine’s first issue is expected to be released next Wednesday, Jan. 12. The plan is to sell subscriptions. Dave Staats, the editor at the Statesman who oversees business news coverage, did not respond to a request […]
An assessment of the new Bloomberg Businessweek
Phyllis Fine of MediaPost critiques Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, noting that it is trying to combine lessons from Web publishing with many of the traditional strengths of print mags. Fine writes, “The mag’s art folks have done a good job of vamping up the pages visually, using clever illustrations and a variety of typefaces appealingly. For […]
New Hampshire paper changes biz page
The Concord Monitor in New Hampshire is changing its business news page to appear in Monday’s paper. Editor Felice Belman writes, “First, the Sunday Monitor has long been the home of a weekly business events calendar. This, along with the businesspeople listings and brief items about local companies, will migrate to the Monday Business section. […]
Thomson Reuters redesigns site
Thomson Reuters, the parent company of the Reuters wire news service, has unveiled a redesigned Web site that looks like a news page. A company spokeseman says, “The website redesign improves navigation with easier and more intuitive ways to access deeper levels of content, which allows customers and visitors a clearer presentation of Thomson Reuters […]
