The Wall Street Journal isn’t the only paper restoring some of its stock table listings to the print edition, according to a report in the New York Times.

Last week, the Journal said in a reader’s note that a small but vocal group of readers missed keeping up with the lightning-quick world of finance in their once-a-day print editions of the Journal. As a result, it would stick some information back into the paper.

Now The Washington Post is taking similar action, the Times reports (read the note from last week):

‘We always had in mind that we would see what the reaction was,’ said Sandra Sugawara, The Posts assistant managing editor for financial news. When the paper announced in November that it was reducing its stock listings, it urged readers to write or e-mail if their stocks or mutual funds had been cut and promised to consider restoring those listings. The Post, which announced the latest change on Tuesday, had already restored some of its stocks and mutual funds, one week after its initial cuts in November.

“Ms. Sugawara said that while many of The Posts readers simply went online, a large and vocal contingent of longtime subscribers ‘had developed a habit of waking up and checking their stocks’ in the morning paper.”

Carrier pigeons were once on the cutting edge too. But we gave up on those.

(Photo: Reuters/Juda Ngwenya - One of 887 pigeons entered in the world’s richest homing pigeon race at Sun City.)