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Thursday, March 28
Editor & Publisher reports that the Sun-Times has dropped its traditional stock listings, making it the largest daily in the country to take such a move. Instead, the paper will run abbreviated details and is, after a fashion, redirecting its readers to a revamped portion of its website. In his blog, the Trib's Eric Zorn notes that, though his outfit does not currently have similar plans, he's skeptical this won't eventually be the industry's trend.