Categories: OLD Media Moves

New York paper launches new business section

The Middletown Times Herald-Record in upstate New York launched a new business section and a companion Web site on Tuesday.

George Spohr wrote, “The section includes a new Money & Careers page with locally written columns, a business calendar, items about people on the move, and news and photos about new businesses.

“Our Web site, recordonline.com/business, has been bolstered with new content. Some of the highlights? Breaking business news, expanded market tools and an interactive map of new businesses.

“In addition to providing business news online and in print, breaking news will be sent out via text messages and e-mail alerts. To subscribe, visit our Web site.”

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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.