Categories: OLD Media Moves

New Jersey paper cuts stock listings, Sunday business section

The Daily Record, a Gannett paper that serves Morristown and Parsippany in New Jersey, is cutting its daily stock listings and its Sunday business section, writes executive editor James Flachsenhaar.

Flachsenhaar wrote, “Yes, we know that any change frustrates some customers, and we regret that. On the other hand, we need to manage our resources so that our three news ‘platforms’ — the daily newspaper, dailyrecord.com and a growing array of specialty products — all survive and prosper.“Here’s what’s happening this week:

1. With most investors now going online to track their stocks, the daily stocks page and Sunday stock summary will be eliminated. You’ll be able to track your stocks at dailyrecord.com.

2. The Sunday business section — predominantly nonlocal content — will be eliminated. A business story focusing on Morris County will continue as part of the local news report.”

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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.