New York Times ombudsman Arthur Brisbane writes Sunday about the paper’s DealBook site, which covers Wall Street but only gets a half page in the printed paper.
“‘If we don’t provide readers with some specialized content that informs them in an area where they might have a narrower and high interest,’ he said, ‘somebody else is going to do it.’
“The Times sacrificed no existing resources when it decided to enlarge DealBook, Mr. Ingrassia emphasized. Granting that, I worry that the investment meant forgoing an opportunity to strengthen reporting elsewhere.
“One area in need now, in the business news category, is clearly the deepening hole in Europe. In slow motion, the weaker states of the European Union are sliding toward insolvency and the European banks, which hold their debt, are being pulled along.”
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