Categories: OLD Media Moves

Oakland area newspapers to get standalone business section

A reorganization of the Bay Area News Group, which includes the San Jose Mecury News, will result in each paper in the East Bay getting a standalone business section.

A story on the newspaper’s website states, ” The East Bay papers will have a stand-alone Business section every day that will include business news from across the region.

“A section focusing on Technology will be added to the East Bay papers on Mondays.”

The Contra Costa Times, Valley Times, San Ramon Valley Times, Tri-Valley Herald, San Joaquin Herald, and East County Times will now be branded under The Times masthead, while the Oakland Tribune, Alameda Times-Star, Daily Review, Argus and West County Times will be rebranded as the East Bay Tribune.

Read more here. The changes are apparently resulting in a number of layoffs at the papers.

The Oakland Tribune rolled out a standalone business section in 2008.

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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.

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