Categories: OLD Media Moves

Illinois paper to cut stock listings

The Elgin Courier News, a Sun-Times newspaper, said Sunday that it would cut its stock listings beginning next week, according to a short item in the paper.

The story stated, “So starting Tuesday, we plan to revamp the financial pages. Stock listings will be replaced by a page of information and graphics on metals, currencies, CD rates, snapshots of certain industries, stock of local interest and a variety of other financial material that will vary each day.

“The purpose of the page will be to complement financial news that is available elsewhere and provide readers with material in one place that is not readily available anywhere else.

“Our complete Sunday stock listings will be replaced by a page of mutual fund quotes and information on the best-performing funds by sector or objective.

“The listing of mutual fund prices will serve those who want to follow their funds’ performance and may not have access to a computer.”

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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