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No more holding business news until Friday

Bill Roy, the editor of the Wichita Business Journal, writes about how reporting has changed at the American City Business Journals paper.

Roy writes, “The Wichita Business Journal has rewired its newsroom.

“We have changed the way we operate so we can deliver the business intelligence you need to compete and win in the Air Capital.

“My reporters and I used to work each week to seek out exclusive local business news — scoops — and present them in the weekly edition of the WBJ that comes out each Friday.

“It didn’t matter if we got the scoop on Monday or Wednesday or the previous Friday, we held that scoop so we could break the news in your Friday paper.

“People talk. News leaks. Sometimes those stories would be picked up by our competitors and we would lose the exclusive.

“No more.

“Now my reporters and I work our sources, we get the scoops and we report them immediately, on your mobile phone, on your tablet and on our website, WichitaBusinessJournal.com.

“Bottom line: No more holding the news. We get it to you as quickly as we can.”

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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