Gilligan writes, “Metro Business has been — and continues to be — a must-read on Monday mornings since it was introduced June 16, 1986, in The Richmond News Leader under the direction of Thomas A. Silvestri, now president and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
“The section is going strong after 30 years. Readers and business people still regularly tell us how important the section is to them.
“Lots of newspapers across the country started Monday business sections in the 1980s, as business journalism became increasingly important.
“Yet most metro daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, eliminated their Monday business sections in the past decade as advertising dried up, said Chris Roush, a professor of business journalism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.”
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