N.C. Daily Cuts Biz Page to One Day

The Lexington Dispatch in North Carolina will cease publishing its daily business section and will instead offer readers a business page every Wednesday, announced the paper’s executive editor, Chad Killebrew.
In a column published Saturday, Killebrew said the move doesn’t mean business news will be cut back. Those stories will now be dispersed throughout the paper, notably on page one or 3A.
On Wednesdays, the business page will feature stories on people in business, a roundup of individual achievements, grand openings, photos and short business stories.
The move harkens back to the days when Killebrew started at the paper in 1989 when the paper only published a business page on Mondays, he wrote.
The decision is based on several factors, including how the paper wants to use that space.

“Rather than use a wire story about business, we’d prefer to use that space to publish local information in a more timely manner,” he wrote. “Given a choice between printing Davidson County news, whether generated by our staff or submitted by readers, or a wire story, we’ll pick local news every time.”

View full column here.