Cone keeps up the drumbeat to keep TransTech Pharma in High Point, this time criticizing the N&R for its non-coverage of the situation:
The N&R’s non-emphasis on local business is established policy, although the logic behind that policy seems flawed. But the paper does put resources into biz stories when they get big enough. This story qualifies.
Or not. Today’s business page of the local daily is dominated by AP coverage of the Daimler/Chrysler split — just in case you missed that story everywhere else in the media universe. Secondary articles: breaking news from AP in Atlanta — airline service still sux!; AP from Charlotte — Wachovia wants more customers!
Cone pointed out a while back —though it’s been no secret — that the N&R has totally ceded business coverage to the Triad Business Journal, much in the same way it’s ceded coverage of local government to the Rhino and, more recently, the Troublemaker.
It’s seems like an eternity since the days when business media in the Triad was actually competitive. When I worked for the now-defunct Triad Business News, I was expected to produce five stories a week, not counting profiles and cover stories, which admittedly is nothing compared to what reporters at small dailies are expected to produce.
You see a byline from an N&R business reporter twice a week, if that. At least the local government beat writers have to sit through hours of tedious meetings. So you have wonder exactly what the business writers at the N&R are doing with their time.
