North Dakota paper cutting printed stock listings

David Braton, the publisher of the Bismarck Tribune, wrote the following on the newspaper’s website:

To our readers,
The Bismarck Tribune is a vital source for local news and information. We believe the content we provide in the pages of the printed product should be weighted to local and regional news, sports and weather. We also want to provide strong state, national and international coverage.
As we calibrate our content, it seems stock listings are taking a higher percentage of our content space. In an effort to provide more news that is important to the majority of readers, we are reducing our daily stock listings and eliminating mutual fund listings on Sunday. We believe the time has come for this change as people have alternatives such as our own website that are more time-sensitive. We will still continue with a wide selection of local-interest stocks, along with commodity prices and trends.
A full range of stock listings is available on our website, www.bismarcktribune.com/markets.

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.