The Baltimore Sun’s standalone business section will be eliminated by the end of the month, becoming the second Tribune paper to cut its business section.
The Hartford Courant announced this weekend that it would cut its business section.
The Sunday consumer section will survive as a standalone section.
Other metro dailies that have cut their standalone business sections in the past year include the The (Raleigh) News & Observer, Denver Post, Orange County Register, Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, St. Petersburg Times, Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal, Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal, Monterey (Calif.) Herald, Palm Beach Post and Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal.
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The Raleigh News & Observer also dropped their standalong business section this week.
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This happened also when I was a business reporter at BaltSun durin the 90-91 recession. Feels more permanent this time. And at times it has been a very good business section, too. But the logic of a local business section collapses any time you do a story about a company of any size: The analysts are in NY, the financiers are in NY or the Vallrey, the competitors and the customers could be anywhere. There's no edge for a local player on anything but covering commercial real estate. Maybe not even there any more.