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Jeremy Mullman de Advertising Age cree que la principal razón por la que un buen número de diarios americanos están recortando las secciones de Finanzas y Economía es el cada vez menor número de empresas interesadas en anunciarse ahí:

While the cuts are a source of much consternation among business journalists — and also to public-relations executives at small local firms and agencies that may have trouble securing news coverage without them — analysts, advertisers and publishers say that the stand-alone sections were relatively poor sources of ad revenue that tended to be overmatched by national and online competition on anything beyond the most hyperlocal stories.

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