Salt Lake Tribune to cut stock listings

Connie Coyne, the reader advocate at the Salt Lake Tribune, writes Saturday that the paper will cut its stock listings.

Coyne writes, “We have to tighten up space in the paper. After weeks of discussing where to make cuts, Tribune Editor Nancy Conway has decided the traditionally long stock listings must go. Starting Tuesday, one half page of stock information will remain. That remaining portion will feature market highlights and the stocks of local interest that we carry now.Â

“The page of space we will save does not come at the expense of information. Information on the markets is widely available now — from the stock ticker at the bottom of the screen on CNBC to the Internet to calling your stock broker.Â

“As Conway explains:

“‘The decision to cut our stock listings is an economic decision. The cost of newsprint is very high, so we have to choose carefully how we use space in the newspaper. A complete daily listing of stock activity is available to our readers any time they want it on our Web site at www.sltrib.com. And we will continue to carry daily listings of stocks of local interest and a daily summary of market activity in the print edition of The Salt Lake Tribune.'”

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