A Study of The Sun's Standalone Demise

The Daily Record takes a look at The Baltimore Sun's plans to shutter its standalone business section beginning July 25.
Reporter Danielle Ulman writes, "When The Sun launches its redesign, Bernie Kohn, assistant managing editor for business, told his staff that business coverage will shrink to two pages inside a new general news section. In an e-mail to his staff on June 30, Kohn said daily business coverage will focus on local stories, with theme pages moving to the overhauled features section."
The news of the plans came just after The Sun announced it would cut 60 newsroom jobs.
In her report, Ulman also queried journalism insiders and experts, including Andrew Leckey, director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, on the changes.
Leckey said standalone sections traditionally existed to display stock tables. He is quoted: "Where the section is isn’t as important as the content. The other trend that’s underway is that more of the business news has made it into the main news section over the last five years. That said, the more business coverage, the better. I think we know from the Internet that we can’t think of things spatially as we have. All words are being delivered differently."

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