Trib kills Monday business section
March 3rd, 2008 by Wayne Garcia in Media Watch, The Business of MSMIt’s part of a national trend of scaling back business news (which doesn’t attract much in the way of advertising), but the Tampa Tribune today announced that its standalone Monday business section is history. Business news on Monday will be tucked into the A section, and some Monday features will be relegated to running every other week on Sundays.
The St. Petersburg Times had already dropped its Monday business tabloid in favor of a broadsheet section.
Both newspapers have recently had negative assessments of their financial situations discussed in their respective newsrooms, with the Trib managers looking to cut another $3 million from its expenses. The newspaper went through a round of 70-plus layoffs last year.
The Big Picture? Former Trib business writer and UNC Chapel Hill journo prof Chris Roush writes about one assessment that says business news will survive.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
This reminds of all those movies when folks are in a frenzy throwing things overboard to lighten the load of a sinking ship.
Adios Tirbune, it’s been fun (not).
March 4th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Troxler’s been running circles around the Trib for years anyway. Thorner’s stuff on the real estate market has been excellent.
The Trib only really ever had 2 pages ogf biz news….the rest were NYSE tables
March 4th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
not Troxler, Trigaux
got my T’ and x’s crossed!!!