Categories: OLD Media Moves

Capital Business to move inside Washington Post

The Washington Post announced Friday that Capital Business, The Post’s standalone publication focused on the D.C.-area’s business and development, will move into the main newspaper throughout the week and no longer be a separate subscription publication.

The work of Capital Business writers will be concentrated on two pages in both the Sunday and Monday newspapers, with regular placement on the Sunday section front and on page one, and local business coverage will be a regular presence in the paper and online every day.

The Capital Business team will continue to produce popular, specialized blogs like OnIT and On Small Business, and will continue to produce the hugely successful “Top Workplaces” list, with its corresponding magazine and event.

“We found there is an enormous appetite for the kind of journalism Capital Business produces, with 85 percent of our readers telling us they are interested in local business news and information,” said Steve Hills, president and general manager, The Washington Post, in a statement. “Incorporating Capital Business into the newspaper gives our readers more of the local business expertise they expect from The Post.”

Hills added, “Capital Business has grown its revenue in the years since its launch, and this move will allow us to further expand the advertising opportunities for this very popular content.”

Capital Business will make its Sunday debut in The Post on Feb. 1, 2015.

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.

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