Categories: OLD Media Moves

Biz reporting helps consumers cope with tough times

Connie Coyne, the reader advocate for the Salt Lake Tribune, writes Saturday about the importance of business and financial reporting in the current economic turmoil.

Coyne writes, “Tribune Business Editor Michael Limon explains the department’s philosophy:

“‘From our blog to enterprise to breaking news, we endeavor to relate every item, every story, to our readers and their pocketbooks. Whether the topic is investing or just making it to the next paycheck, we’re trying to help people cope, survive and thrive.’

“The combination of printed paper and the Internet is giving The Tribune a perfect opportunity to do what it does best: Take complicated concepts and actions and boil them down so readers can understand them and use the information in their own lives.”

Read more here.

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