Sunday, February 18, 2007
BJ to drop stock listings, combine business and sports
The Beacon Journal will drop stock market listings the week of March 5 and combine the business sectionwith the sports section Monday through Friday. The business section will remain a separate section on Saturday and Sundaiy.
The BJ joins many other newspapers in dropping stock listings. It will save much space and production work. Those seeking up-to-the-minute information on stocks and mutual will rely on the Web for prices, dividends and historical performance.
In announcing the change in a column on page A2 on Sunday, managing editor Mizell Stewart said new features will be introduced on Ohio.com.
“All told, our Web offerings will provide comprehensive data on 7,000 stocks, 17,000 mutual funds and more than 300 exchange-traded funds -- more than we could ever provide in our print edition.:” Stewart wrote.
“The daily stock report in the Beacon Journal's print edition will be consolidated into a single page. It will include a comprehensive list of local stocks of interest and the top mutual funds, along with reports on currencies, commodities and interest rates.
“Some of the space formerly devoted to stock listings will be used to increase the amount of space available for daily business news. In the coming weeks, we plan to increase the size of the Sunday Business section from its current four pages to six.”
Click on the headline to read Stewart's column.
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2 comments:
if you've checked the business pages over the last month or so, they're mostly "canned". local seems to have disappeared, ie, sunday, one local story. and the monday pages are a joke.
maybe they can hire company flacks to churn out stuff on tneir companies and at least give the business news some sort of a local flavor.
and it would seem there's space for local news in the local section. and that' ap ohio nowdays.
A lot of newspapers are doing what the Beacon is doing with the Business section. The paper has lacked local business news
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