Boston Globe to combine Sunday business section with careers section
The Sunday Boston Globe will combine its Business & Money and Careers section into one on April 20, according to an announcement in Sunday’s paper. It’s also dropping its Sunday stock listings. The story stated, “By bringing together these two sections, readers will be able to catch up on investing news and career advice in […]
Sacramento Bee to change stock listings again
Armando Acuña, the public editor of the Sacramento Bee, writes Sunday that the paper will change its stock listings once again, but hasn’t decided what it’s going to do. Acuña writes, “Now The Bee is on the verge of redesigning its stock page, with one substantial difference: It has solicited readers’ opinions. “For several days, […]
Missouri papers eliminate business section
The Sun Newspapers in Johnson County have done some cost cutting to its Northland group, as the Sun’s St. Joseph-based owner decided to eliminate the papers’ business section, reports Dan Margolies of the Kansas City Star. Margolies wrote, “The section, which ran in the Sun Tribune, Sun Gazette and Liberty Tribune, will be replaced by […]
Where did my business section go?
Louis Hau of Forbes writes Wednesday about the cuts — including the cutting of standalone business sections — made by daily newspapers to remain profitable. Hau writes, “But it’s probably the least worst option for newspapers facing severe cost-cutting pressures, says Todd Brownrout, a former advertising executive at The Los Angeles Times and other newspapers, […]
Explaining economic indicators to business readers
The Newark Star-Ledger newspaper began a month-long look this week at the economic indicators that are expected to move the markets each day. The series will work out to about 17 installments, ending May 1 with the personal income report. It will appear on the bottom of the section front each day, unless there’s nothing […]
Washington state paper cuts stock listings
The Columbian daily newspaper, which covers Vancouver, Wash., is cutting back on the printed stock listings in both its daily and Sunday newspapers, according to a short item on Tuesday. Staff writer Julia Anderson wrote, “Today, The Columbian is reducing its package of stocks and investment news from two pages to one as a way […]
Colorado Springs paper moves biz section into metro
The Colorado Springs Gazette will move its business section into its metro section beginning Tuesday, writes editor Jeff Thomas in Sunday’s paper. Thomas wrote, “The Business section will move into the Metro section. The move saves newsprint, and it gives business a later deadline, so news can be updated later in the evening. “On Saturdays, […]
Palm Beach Post to cut Sunday biz section
The Palm Beach Post will cut its Sunday business section and combine its daily business section with the metro section for several days during the week, according to a memo posted on the Broward-Palm Beach New Times web site. The memo, from editor John Bartosek, stated that local and business would combine sections “a few […]
Avoiding the fate of the dinosaurs
Donald Blount, the managing editor of the Stockton Record, writes Sunday about the calls the paper has received in the wake of cutting stock listings in the business section. Blount wrote, “For the past few weeks, Deputy Metro Editor Barbara Zumwalt, who coordinates our business coverage, and I have taken calls each day from readers […]
A traditional biz section design
Roger Hedges, assistant managing editor of business at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in Little Rock, writes that the paper’s business & farm section typically takes a traditional design structure. Hedges says, “We decided the top business story of the day on Jan. 18 was the macro-economic picture and put that story on Page 1A. (The story […]
