Categories: OLD Media Moves

Richmond daily biz section will begin charging for promotions, announcements

The Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper plans to begin charging for job promotions and board appoints that usually appear in its business section.

A story on its website states, “Starting Nov. 5, the Decision Maker, which highlighted the promotion or hiring of top-ranking employees, will become a paid feature in the Metro Business section.

“The listings of board members for local groups and associations also will shift to a paid feature.

“A free listing for both features is no longer offered.

“Making these changes will give companies and organizations more options and greater control over what information and photos are included in the announcements.

“The costs are based on the size of the announcement.”

Read more here. American City Business Journals papers began charging for such announcements a year ago.

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.