Categories: OLD Media Moves

Ottawa paper changes stock listings

The Ottawa Citizen has made the type for its stock listings one point size bigger and changed the list of companies, according to a short story in Tuesday’s paper.

Robert Bostelaar wrote, “The biggest change is a full, one-point increase in type size for stock listings. Plus we’ve revised the type and made other changes in presentation, again to make listings easier to read.

“We’ve also updated the list of Ottawa-headquartered firms and other companies of special interest to our readers, and we’ve adjusted the Mutual Funds section to spotlight funds that have made the largest gains or losses during the day. A full list of 2,000 funds, plus complete stock exchange listings, will continue to appear in our weekly Markets report every Saturday.

“Our new page is designed to complement the minute-by-minute stocks information available through our website, but also to stand on its own for those who prefer a printed format.”

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.