Little Rock paper scissors Monday biz section

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has cut its Monday business news section, reports Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times.

Brantley reports, “Did your Monday morning Arkansas Democrat-Gazette include a business section?

“Mine didn’t.

“I suspect that’s a permanent change, though I saw no notice of it in the newspaper. There WAS an announcement Saturday that a former feature of the Monday section, a syndicated computer column, would now appear on Saturday and that the bankruptcy listing, once also a Monday feature, would henceforth appear Sunday. I took that as a signal of the coming demise of the Monday business section, but expected a formal announcement of some sort. I didn’t get a response from a news executive I queried by e-mail about the change.

“UPDATE: New business editor Jim Kordsmeier confirms that the Monday business section is no more.”

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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.