Posted on 01/21/2008 4:17:48 PM PST by BurbankKarl
The Orange County Register is moving most of its business news into the main section of the newspaper at the end of January as part of a series of initiatives announced by the company this month.
The changes, which will begin Jan. 30, are being made in response to the challenges facing newspapers in this digital age – declining circulation, a loss of advertising, high newsprint costs and an increasing demand for instantaneous access to news.
"Shifting our business coverage into News is driven by a need to be more efficient in the type of news we publish in our newspaper versus online," said Terry Horne, Register president and publisher. "The Marketplace pages within the News section will continue to provide useful information on what's happening in the business community, why it's happening, how it affects Orange County."
Business news, now in the Register's separate Marketplace section, will appear inside the main section Monday through Saturday. Listings of stocks and mutual funds will largely be eliminated, except for local stocks and market summaries. The Business Monday tabloid will also be dropped after Jan. 28. Only on Sundays will a stand-alone Marketplace section be published.
Newspapers across the country have made a number of changes to shore up their bottom line in the wake of a 23-year decline in circulation and a more recent loss of advertising.
The Register, with a daily circulation of 284,613 as of Sept. 30, will be the largest U.S. newspaper to eliminate its stand-alone business section, said Chris Roush, a University of North Carolina journalism professor who follows the newspaper industry.
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Because no one in the O.C. cares about money! More good news for the WSJ and IBD I guess.
Who needs reporters when all you do is cut-n-paste MoveOn’s Doom and gloom stories, anyway?
I’m guessing a parent for the paper in on the team.
Women editor. Went downhill from that decision.
The OC Register used to be pretty good.
Lately, it has been horrible, running columnists that fit more with the NY Times.
geez they all ready have sold off the OC post, now the business section.. they must be in big trouble
Right on. The paper has moved to the left a number of years ago. Might as well read the nyt and the latimes The opinion section is still Libertarian.
Paper print will be a thing of the past. What’s the number of households these days that are on-line? 80% or so?
Makes it tougher to share a newspaper when there isn’t a separate section.
I agree with the opinion that dead tree papers will eventually die off. There is a critical mass factor involved here. Once circulation drops below a certain point, more layoffs ensue, ad sales decline further, followed by more of the same. It is a death spiral.
The good news is that most journalists are far left liberals. They thought they had a cushy position from which to push their agenda, only now that cushy position is turning to mush. All of this sounds great to me. Talk radio, the internet, and blogs are the way to go. Oh well, too bad for the libs. Their iron grip only lasted from FDR until now. Time for a little balance.
The savvy business move would be to switch the rag to Spanish language. It won’t be long until Hispanics are a plurality and then a majority in the OC.
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