New York state paper expands biz coverage

The Albany Times-Union has redesigned its paper and unveiled the changes on Tuesday. Those changes included an expanded business section.

Here is what editor Rex Smith told Talking Biz News in an email:

We have had a stand-alone Business section five days a week (except Monday and Saturday) for some time, but now we’re moving to six days a week – that is, omitting only Monday, when our print edition is very small. We are adding a bit of space to give us more room for business coverage on Thursdays and Sundays, which are the two largest days of print circulation, and on Tuesdays, when we’re particularly augmenting our coverage of technology. The latter issue focus matches an online issue focus on technology coverage on www.timesunion.com.

In particular, we think this additional coverage is necessary in our market because of the growth of the high-tech sector in New York’s Capital Region. A combination of public and private investments have made this a growing center of the nanotechnology industry, with both cutting-edge research (based at SUNY’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering) and manufacturing (at Global Foundries’ chip manufacturing plant in Saratoga County). We need to speak to this vital segment of our market with coverage that reflects what’s going on there and that answers the appetite for information of the players in the nanoscale environment.