Categories: OLD Media Moves

Florida daily adds business news section

Phil Lewis, the executive editor of the Naples Daily News in Florida, writes Sunday about how the paper is boosting its business news coverage.

Lewis writes, “Page one of our B section— currently devoted to community news contributed by readers and freelance writers — will become the business section cover.

“The new section front will feature local, national and world economic news with a focus on jobs, business developments in Southwest Florida, new ventures, failed ventures and insights from a wealth of accomplished business leaders who now reside in the Naples-Fort Myers area. We will offer a daily column by veteran journalist Dave Osborn devoted to the local economy and business activities. We are actively recruiting another reporter to specifically cover business issues and trends. We are raising the bar.

“This emphasis on business news is a direct result of our Lighthouse Project that we launched earlier this year.

“Our unprecedented look at our history, our current demographics and our future potential — covered in three special sections published in April — clearly showed a need to better understand and report on the local economy and business in general.”

Read more here.

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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