Tacoma paper cuts Sunday stocks

The Tacoma News-Tribune has cut its Sunday stock listings as part of an overall redesign of the newspaper.

Executive editor Karen Peterson writes, “Newspapers across the country have done away with stocks listings as people have gone to the Internet for that information (including our own website). Few readers have complained. We will continue the daily listing of local stocks in our Business section.

“We’ll use some of the newfound space for ‘Money Power,’ a column about personal finance topics including savings and investing, college costs, retirement planning and taxes.

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Earlier this year, the New London Day in Connecticut moved its Sunday listings to Saturday while The Oregonian in Portland dropped all weekend listings.

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.