Washington Post biz news is read more now that it's in A section

Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, talked Sunday about the paper’s decision last year to cut its standalone business section and put business news into its A section.

Downie, now a professor at Arizona State University, also discussed the strategy behind the Post’s decision to launch a weekly business newspaper next month called Capital Business.

Downie was responding to a question from Talking Biz News at the annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference in Phoenix.