WSJ reinstates regular dividend table
Hal Morris, writing on his Grumpy Editor blog, is happy that The Wall Street Journal has brought back the regular dividends table to its Money & Investing section. Morris writes, “The WSJ abandoned regular dividends in print months ago, spotlighting only changes, including reduced, increased, initial, irregular, special and foreign. Since then — while more […]
WSJ Europe unveils new look
The Wall Street Journal‘s European introduced launched its revamp on Tuesday, with a number of new features. A story on the paper’s Web site states, “New features in the print edition include: Regular columnists, including “Agenda” on page two with views and analysis from Ms. Wheatcroft, deputy editor Iain Martin and well-known economist Irwin Stelzer. […]
The difference between Fortune and The Economist
Yvette Kantrow of The Deal writes about the changes taking place at Fortune magazine and how The Economist remains successful. Kantrow writes, “That seems to be such a fundamentally different view of the world than the one espoused by Fortune as it heads off into its latest redesign. Faced with falling revenue and Internet competition, […]
WSJ revamps European edition
The Wall Street Journal is changing its European edition to include new analysis features and columnists as well as a new front page design, in a move to attract more readers and advertisers, executives at the newspaper said Tuesday. Lilly Vitorovich of Dow Jones Newswires writes, “The changes also include easier navigation, a more simplified […]
BusinessWeek covers through the years
Robert Neman of Mediaite has posted a nice collection of BusinessWeek covers down through the years. You can view all of them here. Here are my favorites:
Little Rock publisher: I won't cut printed stock listings
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The publisher and owner of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said Monday that the paper has no plans to cut its printed stock listings, despite the fact that virtually every metro newspaper in the country has done so and put stock listings online. “Maybe some day,” said Walter E. Hussman Jr., speaking to […]
Dallas paper says economy is a snapshot
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The Dallas Morning News began a new feature Monday in its business section called the Local Economic Snapshot. This week’s was about unemployment, and it included statewide job data, statewide unemployment rates, employment by industry and comments from economists on where they think the Texas unemployment figure is headed. Dennis Fulton, […]
Montreal paper expands online business news offerings
Bryan Demchinsky, business editor of the Montreal Gazette, writes Thursday about how the paper is expanding its online business news offerings. Demchinsky writes, “A new departmental business blog called Inc. Ink has been launched. It will be one of the elements on a new Web page on montrealgazette.com called Business Observer. As the name suggests, […]
Sunday snippets
The Pottstown Mercury newspaper in Pennsylvania is cutting back on its stock listings during the week. Editor Nancy March writes, “We are scaling our stocks listings to an abbreviated format with graphics reporting to allow more columns of local Business news.” The Oshkosh Northwestern is folding its business section into its sports section. Managing editor […]
Fort Wayne Monday biz section off to a Fresh Start
I like what the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette did with its Monday business section this week in honor of Labor Day — it focused on entrepreneurs who have started companies and dubbed it Fresh Starts. Business editor Lisa Green writes, “Fresh Starts provides insight and strategies for people who have lost employment but have skills […]
