Tacoma paper to cut stock listings

The Tacoma News Tribune joins the long list of newspapers cutting its stock listings.

Executive editor Dave Zeeck writes, “What this means for The News Tribune is that we’re looking at ways to trim costs, shooting for things that will impact customers the least.

“We’ve made two decisions that will show up soon.

“Next Saturday there will be two fewer pages of week — ending stock reports. Newspapers all over America, including us, have trimmed back stocks in our daily business pages –- to almost no reader reaction. That’s because almost all active investors watch their stocks on the Internet these days.

“The pages we keep will focus on the most actively traded stocks and the most widely held mutual funds.”

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