Florida daily rolls out new Time & Money section

Lakeland Ledger The Lakeland Ledger newspaper in Florida will introduce on Thursday a weekly four-page Time & Money section with new content designed by GateHouse Media, its owner.

A story on the Ledger website states, “The weekly section will include:

“• Time & Money, which will feature items such as how to keep your pet clean and meal-planning tips.

“• Personal finance, a page that will rotate among The Ledger’s finance page and a new page that will include tips on how to earn more interest on your money and how to eliminate ‘surprise’ bills.

“• Tech/Media, which will include things like hot new podcasts and photo scanner apps.

“• Shopping & Saving, which will highlight items like foods you should not refrigerate and the best crossover vehicles for less than $12,000.

“‘We are thrilled to offer this new content to our readers – useful content in a unique and expedient manner,’ said Ledger Media Group Publisher Brian Burns.”

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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.