Categories: OLD Media Moves

Sarasota paper cuts stock listings

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, a New York Times Co. paper, has become the latest paper to cut its printed stock listings in the daily newspaper.

Executive editor MikeÂ Connelly wrote, “The Herald-Tribune has reduced the number of stocks and mutual funds listed in the daily newspaper. As more investors use the Internet to track their investments, the expense of publishing daily stock listings has become harder for newspapers to justify, particularly as the economic slowdown forces newspapers and many other businesses to reduce costs. We continue to list the 2,400 most actively traded stocks and mutual funds.

“If an issue that is important to you is omitted, please call or e-mail Assistant Business Editor Gerard Walen at 361-4872 or gerard.walen@ heraldtribune.com. Meanwhile, visit heraldtribune.com/stocks for tools that make it easy to track your portfolio. And coming soon: A redesign of heraldtribune.com that will provide even better stock information.”

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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.