Eliminating the standalone business section

Lisa Snedeker of Media Life magazine takes a look Wednesday at how some daily newspapers have eliminated the standalone business news section.

Snedeker wrote, “Instead of stand-alone business sections, the trend is toward a single page of business news, or business stories spread through the paper. Often it means fewer business reporters and less local business news.

“The irony, of course, is that this is happening precisely at the time when papers across the country are talking up hyper-local coverage, putting more resources–reporters and editors–on the streets to cover the local news while cutting back on national and international coverage.

“The push for more local coverage is driven by the best of intentions: to halt the declines in circulation that have plagued dailies in recent years.

“So why then the slashing of local business sections?”

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