Long Beach Biz Journal parent becomes nonprofit

The parent company of the Long Beach Business Journal has become a nonprofit.

Chief Executive Officer Melissa Evans writes, “In 2024, we will grow our mission of providing essential news and information even further by hosting a number of events, offering training and networking sessions for the public, expanding our voter information guides and working to promote media literacy among young people.

“This is an exciting new era for journalism in Long Beach and part of a larger nationwide trend in the news industry. More than 500 other news organizations have either transitioned to nonprofit status or have sprung up in markets where residents don’t have reliable access to news and information.

“We will keep doing the difficult yet vital work of journalism — asking questions, requesting documents, staying up late to watch the last speaker address the City Council — because we believe it matters.”

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