Trib kills Monday business section
March 3, 2008 at 11:41 am by Wayne GarciaIt’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.
