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About three-fourths of business editors surveyed say their newspapers had "cut back considerably" on stock listings in recent years and that the space savings had not resulted in increased editorial space. A
study [PDF] by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism also found:
* Two-thirds of the nation's 1,400 daily papers still run stock tables in some form, but virtually none offers a complete listing of stock market results.
* Seven of every eight business editors acknowledge getting "a lot of complaints" from readers about stock table cuts.
* The average amount of space devoted by all papers to stock tables is slightly more than one-third of a page. Among the large papers, the average amount of space devoted to stock listings is a page and a half.
