Categories: OLD Media Moves

Richmond daily switches Sunday content to NYTimes

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is now using content from the New York Times in its Sunday business section, replacing the Wall Street Journal Sunday content.

Business editor Gregory Gilligan writes, “The biggest changes are the addition of consumer-oriented pages from The New York Times and a half-page of mutual fund listings.

“Adding The New York Times pages also allows us to refocus our approach to business coverage on Sundays to include stories beyond consumer issues.

“That change has prompted us to rename the section Sunday Business, replacing the Moneywise name that we began using six years ago to focus on consumer issues during the height of the recession.

“The New York Times’ Spending Well pages replace The Wall Street Journal Sunday that ran each week beginning in late 2001. Dow Jones announced in November that it was eliminating that section as of last week.”

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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.