Dallas Morning News is cutting standalone biz news section

The Dallas Morning News will cut its standalone business news section as part of cost-cutting measures at the newspaper.

The paper also is laying off 40 staffers, including 20 editorial workers. Two of those workers are business news desk staffers.

Metro and Business will be combined into one section Tuesday through Saturday. Top business stories will compete for spots on the cover of the combined section.

The exact number of pages daily will vary, depending on the overall news hole. There will be no Monday Business section.

Sunday Business will remain a standalone section, with plans to add content to it.

The timing of when the change will occur is still unclear.

Editors are spending this week figuring out all of the details and design. The paper’s publisher and editor are writing a column for print on Wednesday that’ll explain these changes to its print subscribers.

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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