Capital Business as a Substitute to Daily Business Section

This week The Washington Post began testing out the possibility of a subscription-based weekly business publication (similar to the Washington Business Journal). Special Post subscribers were treated to an advance copy and asked to fill out a survey on how they like the publication. Results from the poll are likely to be on the negative side since they asked readers to disregard that the articles included in the prototype are “old and out of date.”  I guess they are just gauging the interest in a publication of this nature and the design that they have produced, since readers can’t gauge on content.

I agree that there is something missing since the Post did away with its business section but I’m not sure that this weekly publication will fill the void. Although, I’d love to see more coverage of local business since Greater Washington boast some of the nation’s most recession proof areas.

Have you seen Capital Business? At $1.99 per week would you subscribe? We’d like to hear your thoughts on it since it’s you, the reader, who will determine its fate…

––Ali Smith