Atlanta Biz Chronicle hires Ward to cover housing and real estate

The Atlanta Business Chronicle has hired Janelle Ward to cover housing and real estate development. She has been at reporter at The Atlanta Voice, covering business and real estate for Atlanta’s only Black-owned and -published newspaper, where she worked for former Business Chronicle reporter Donnell Suggs. Ward previously interned for The Athens Banner-Herald. She is a University […]

New publisher named at San Fran Business Times

Pete Casillas has been named publisher of the San Francisco Business Times. Editor in chief Jim Gardner writes, “It’s a homecoming of sorts for Casillas, who joined the Business Times in 2013 as advertising director before moving in 2014 to be publisher of the Denver Business Journal, another ACBJ publication. He was promoted to an ACBJ vice president, […]

New business publication launches in Colorado

A new business journal — Jeffco Legends — plans to spotlight the business goings-on of Jefferson County, Colorado using data. Jeffco Legends will focus on telling stories with data — building and maintaining a database of local businesses, executives and real estate transactions and publishing data in list, chart and map formats. Boots-on-the-ground original reporting […]

Milwaukee Biz Journal seeks travel and tourism reporter

The Milwaukee Business Journal is seeking a reporter to cover travel and tourism (including airlines), beer industry and business of sports beats, along with other areas as assigned. The reporters for ACBJ will join our newsroom and cover markets for one of the hottest economies in the country. Our reporters must be competitive, nimble and […]

Westfair Biz Journal lays off editor in chief

Westfair Communications, the Mount Kisco, New York-based publisher of the Westfair Business Journal, laid off three of its staffers last week. Those losing their jobs were editor Phil Hall, marketing coordinator Carolyn Meaney and research coordinator Sebastian Flores. Hall’s writing for Westfair Communications has earned multiple awards from the Connecticut Press Club and the Connecticut […]

Pacific Business News seeks a tourism and energy reporter

Pacific Business News — an American City Business Journals publication — is seeking a reporter in Honolulu to cover the significant beats of Tourism, Energy and Money & Finance. Our reporters must be competitive, nimble and driven to break news about the most important industries, companies and people in the region. They are expected to […]

Corridor Biz Journal seeks a reporter and special project manager

The award winning Corridor Business Journal, a bi-weekly business publication in Iowa’s Creative Corridor, seeks an enterprising Reporter and Special Project Manager to cover business news throughout the Corridor’s seven-county area, and to manage a brand-new statewide print project– set to publish in 2025. The reporter is responsible for developing and cultivating sources within the […]

Birmingham Biz Journal seeks a tech and startups reporter

The Reporters for American City Business Journals will join our newsroom and cover markets for one of the hottest economies in the country. Our reporters must be competitive, nimble and driven to break news about the most important industries, companies and people in the region. They are expected to provide forward-looking business intelligence to savvy […]

Orange County Biz Journal seeks an editor

The Orange County Business Journal, arguably the most successful local business publication in the country, is seeking an Editor for our weekly publication. You will be following a distinguished group, including a Pulitzer Prize recipient. The successful candidate will be an accomplished journalist with a sophisticated understanding of business. You will run a vibrant newsroom […]

The balancing act in business journalism

J. Jennings Moss, the departing editor of the Silicon Valley Business Journal, writes about the difficulty that faces business journalists. Moss writes, “Unlike other some other lines of journalism, business news can be a bit incestuous. We’re writing about companies that might be advertisers. Or our advertisers come to us with legitimate story ideas about […]