Categories: OLD Media Moves

Arkansas Business to limit online content

Arkansas Business, a weekly business newspaper based in Little Rock, plans to cut its online content, according to a brief in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

David Smith writes, “The publication will stop providing its ‘Whispers’ and ‘Real Deal’ columns, and its in-depth cover articles online. Instead, they will be available only to print subscribers, who will be able to receive a digital copy of the publication each week.

“The change is a business decision, said Arkansas Business Editor Gwen Moritz.

“‘We are like every other media company,’ she said Tuesday. ‘We realize that our paid subscriber is our most valuable reader. We want them to get the most value.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.