Categories: OLD Media Moves

Reno paper moves business section inside paper

The Reno Gazette-Journal will no longer have a standalone business section during the week, according to a short story in Wednesday’s paper.

To make room for a new Neighborhoods & Voices section, the business section is moving inside the paper. On Wednesday, business news began on page 11A.

The Reno paper joins the Akron Beacon-Journal and the Cincinnati Enquirer as newspapers that have moved the business section inside of the paper instead of giving it standalone status.

Expect more newspapers to cut their standalone business sections in the coming months as they try to save on newsprint costs and devote more news hole to editorial content they believe that their readers value more than business coverage.

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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.