BridgeTower Media acquires ColoradoBiz

BridgeTower Media, which operates business publications across the country, had acquired ColoradoBiz for an undisclosed amount.

Founded in 1973, ColoradoBiz is the largest business publication in Colorado. It has a monthly print magazine and a website.

“Business is booming in Colorado, and we see an opportunity to accelerate growth in ColoradoBiz through this acquisition by leveraging the power of BridgeTower Media’s audience platform and best-in-class capabilities,” said BridgeTower Media President and CEO Hal Cohen in a statement.

ColoradoBiz has been owned by Denver-based Wiesner Media since 1986, when it was called Colorado Business. It was renamed in 1999.

BridgeTower Media is a portfolio company of Transom Capital Group, a private equity firm. Its publications include the Charleston Regional Business Journal, Finance & Commerce in Minneapolis, the Idaho Business Review, Long Island Business News and the Rochester Business Journal.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.