Washington Post to cut Sunday stock listings
The Washington Post will announce in its Sunday paper that it’s cutting its Sunday stock and mutual fund listings, but expanding the amount of information available for those that it will continue to publish. An item in Sunday’s paper states, “This is part of an effort we started a few weeks ago to reorganize our […]
WSJ adds, moves opinion columns
The Wall Street Journal has added a third page to its opinion section and moved some other columns to other parts of the paper, reports the Associated Press. The AP story stated, “The changes, detailed in a note to readers Monday, include adding three weekly columnists to the opinion section, including former Journal publisher Gordon […]
Tacoma paper to cut stock listings
The Tacoma News Tribune joins the long list of newspapers cutting its stock listings. Executive editor Dave Zeeck writes, “What this means for The News Tribune is that we’re looking at ways to trim costs, shooting for things that will impact customers the least. “We’ve made two decisions that will show up soon. “Next Saturday […]
Murdoch spending time at the Journal
Johnnie Roberts of Newsweek writes in the latest issue about News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and his efforts to make changes at The Wall Street Journal. Roberts writes, “From the beginning, Murdoch had no intention of radically altering the appearance of the Journal, once known for its ink-dot black-and-white illustrations. The series of editorial and […]
New Hampshire paper combines Sunday sections
The Concord Monitor in New Hampshire, which earlier this month won a Pulitzer Prize, is combining two sections on Sunday into a new business section. Felice Belman writes, “Beginning in May, we will conflate the Sunday Home & Family and Business sections into a new Sunday Monitor feature section called Your Life. On the front […]
New Globe "Money & Careers" section has new pages, cuts stocks
The Sunday Boston Globe business section, which combines its Money section with its Careers section, will cut its printed stock and mutual fund listings for two new pages, MarketWeek and MoneyWeek. The MarketWeek page offers readers a summary of the most interesting market activity for the week, including short stories on five companies with significant […]
Puget Sound Business Journal launches redesign
The Puget Sound Business Journal, the American City Business Journals newspaper in the Seattle market, is rolling out a redesigned paper on Friday. “After a great deal of time in research and planning, including reader feedback, focus groups, surveys, prototypes and more, we’re excited to share our new look with the community,” said publisher Emory […]
Culture coming to Wall Street Journal
Women’s Wear Daily’s Memo Pad column reports Friday that The Wall Street Journal is considering adding a culture section to its menu. This comes on top of earlier reports that the paper is seeking to boost its sports and politics coverage to compete more directly with The New York Times. Memo Pad writes, “At a […]
The death of the business section shocking? Maybe not
Alexis Glick of Fox Business Network ran a segment today about how some metro newspapers have cut their standalone business sections, and she interviewed Gail DeGeorge, president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, as well as Edward Atorino, a media industry analyst for Benchmark Co. On her blog, Glick writes, “Shocking? It depends […]
As papers cut biz sections, biz section columnist wins Pulitzer for first time
Mark Fitzgerald of Editor & Publisher notes Tuesday the irony of a business section columnist — Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post — winning a Pulitzer Prize for the first time during a time when newspapers are cutting their business sections. Fitzgerald writes, “‘Obviously, I’m thrilled as anyone would be to win the Pulitzer Prize, […]
