Categories: OLD Media Moves

Sacramento paper could combine biz section with metro

Melanie Turner of the Sacramento Business Journal reports Friday that the Sacramento Bee is considering combining its business section with its metro section.

Turner writes, “Melanie Sill, editor and senior vice president for The Bee, this week confirmed that among the ideas being discussed as part of the newspaper’s redesign is to eliminate the stand-alone business section and combine the business and metro sections.

“Sill said the industry trend is a symptom of the stock pages being removed from business sections. ‘They suddenly got very thin,’ she said.”

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Papers that have made similar moves include the Denver Post, Orange County Register, Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal, Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal, Monterey (Calif.) Herald, Palm Beach Post and Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal.

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