The copy editors lost this battle
Glenn Coleman, the editor of Financial Week, a Crain’s publication, got into a headline battle recently with his copy editors. Here is how Coleman tells the story: “Thought I’d send this 2/11 front page because of our headline ‘Bristol-Myers squibbed by auction-rate bonds.’ “It got a strong love/hate reaction from the wordsmithies, internally and externally. My copy desk still wants to […]
New Mexico newspaper cuts stock listings
The Las Cruces Sun-News in Mexico is cutting its stock listings, according to a short story in Wednesday’s paper. The story stated, “We hope the information provided to our business readers will help you get a comprehensive, quick picture of the day’s market activity. “No longer will we run complete listings for mutual funds and […]
A clean design for Boston's high tech business paper
Mass High Tech is an American City Business Journals publication based in Boston that covers the area’s high tech industry. The paper won the best overall design award in its class of weekly papers at this year’s New England Press Association conference. In giving the award, the judges stated, “Mass High Tech makes good use […]
Chattanooga business section focuses on local news
John Vass Jr., the business editor of the Chattannoga Times Free Press, notes that his daily business section likes to focus on local business news. But there’s a nice mixture of stories on Tuesday’s front page, from a trend piece to a column to a national story. Vass says, “Our emphasis is on local news […]
The Plain Dealer's cool Sunday tax cover on biz section front
Cleveland Plain Dealer business editor Paul O’Donnell calls the paper’s Sunday business section on taxes a “killer cover.” “Every year at tax time, we produce a host of consumer-oriented stories on news you can use to help you file your tax return,” says O’Donnell. “We kicked off the coverage Sunday with the attached.” (See below.) […]
Biz sections dying for lack of ad revenue
Jeremy Mullman of Advertising Age writes Monday that the reason business sections are being cut by daily newspapers is the decline of advertisers who want to buy space in them. Mullman wrote, “While the cuts are a source of much consternation among business journalists — and also to public-relations executives at small local firms and […]
Monday's Philly Inquirer biz section introduces daily video Web cast
First up on our front pages is Monday’s Philadelphia Inquirer business section. Faithful Talking Biz News readers will remember that the Inquirer’s biz section last year had a controversial change when it began running ads on its masthead and allowed a local bank to sponsor its Philly Inc. column on the front page. As for […]
Send your biz section fronts to TBN
Starting this week, Talking Biz News would like to post PDF files of the covers of weekly business newspapers, daily business sections, and business magazines so that others in the business can see them and learn what others are doing across the country. The idea comes from Philadelphia Inquirer business editor Tony Gnoffo, who says […]
Washington state paper cuts Sunday stock listings
The Olympian newspaper in Olympia, Wash., has cut its Sunday stock listings, among other changes to the business section. Executive editor Vickie Kilgore wrote, “The Sunday Business section looks different. It’s combined with the Classified listings, which we think you will find useful. The list of property transfers that has been published in the Business […]
Investor's Business Daily overhauls section, stock listings
Investor’s Business Daily has made a number of changes to its Making Money section, including a new font for its stock listings and a number of new columns, according to a story in Tuesday’s paper. The biggest change is an overhaul of its stock pages that now list stocks based on industry. (See chart at […]
