Andrea Wood looks back on co-founding The Business Journal in Youngstown, Ohio in 1984 as she retires and is named publisher emeritus.
Dan O’Brien writes, “‘As we invested our time and effort to build up the business community, that was reciprocated by our business community, by all the locally owned companies that supported us with their advertising,’ Wood says. ‘A lot of people advertised with us just because they believed in us, and they wanted us to change the narrative.’
“Which was no easy task during the mid-1980s, she acknowledges. This was a period she describes as the ‘age of the charlatans,’ referring to major projects and companies that either made big promises they couldn’t deliver, or those larger corporate entities that moved into the region, acquired local companies, gutted them, and shut them down.
“‘The whole idea behind The Business Journal was that no one was telling good business news,’ Wood recalls. ‘The idea was to tell positive business news happening in the Mahoning Valley.'”
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