Welcome: The New York Times Expands News Coverage Of Small Business And Automotive Sectors

NEW YORK--Oct. 3, 2003--The New York Times announced today that it is expanding its news coverage of small business and the automotive industry.

A new weekly feature on small business debuted in the Business Day section of the newspaper this week. The page profiles small business owners, their approach to starting new business ventures, how they operate their businesses and the risks involved for success in business today.

"The small business sector is one of the biggest parts of our economy and is an important creator of jobs," said Brent Bowers, the editor of the feature. "This new coverage attempts to capture the entrepreneurial spirit of small business leaders and take a closer look at what makes them tick."

Beginning on Monday, October 6, The Times will expand its automotive news coverage to a third day with a new weekly half-page feature in the SportsMonday section of the newspaper. This expanded coverage will focus on automotive industry issues, technology, design and collector cars to complement the newspaper's existing Sunday Automobiles and Friday Escapes automobile news coverage.

"Our new automotive feature expands the coverage of cars to three days per week - augmenting the popular Sunday Automobiles and Friday Escapes sections of The Times," said James G. Cobb, automobile editor of The New York Times. "Our expanded coverage will be of interest to those with a casual curiosity about cars, as well as to those aficionados who are savvy about design, technology and the booming market for collectible cars. And to better serve our readers, we've placed it in our popular national SportsMonday section for those readers checking the weekend's big game scores."

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