Friday, March 13, 2009, 4:55pm EDT Modified: Friday, March 13, 2009, 6:04pm
Washington Post dumps business section
Washington Business Journal – by Tierney Plumb Staff Reporter
The Washington Post will trash its stand-alone business section to help the media giant cut newsprint costs.
Financial news will flip into the A section on March 30, decreasing the paper’s daily sections to four. No staff cuts will be made, according to a company spokeswoman.
“These moves will allow us to continue providing the features that our readers tell us they most value in the newspaper. They also allow us to save on newsprint—an important objective in these times,” said a memo sent to employees and obtained by the Washington Business Journal.
Business and economic news in the A section will sit alongside national, international and political news.
“The expanded A Section will allow us to make better decisions about story play and length, and to run a leaner, better-organized newspaper,” the memo stated.
…As part of the moves at the Post, some comics will move online from the Style section, and one of two crossword puzzles will be dropped. The syndicate that provides that puzzle three days a week has decided to discontinue it, along with the weekly chess and poker columns, according to the memo.
Here is the full article.
Susan, we have you. We don’t need the Post’s column.
With the internet, chess columns are a dinosaur – a thing of the past – just like newspapers will be soon. They should have closed the Washington Post nice and neat – instead we have to watch the death throes.
A pity to lose a chess voice with integrity from a very public forum.
If you are for chess, you should be concerned about this.
I use the Washington Post for toilet paper any how. Good riddance.