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Springfield Biz Journal publisher becomes owner

Marty Goodnight

Springfield Business Journal publisher Marty Goodnight has become the third owner of the publication in its 46-year history.

Mike Cullinan of the Business Journal writes, “The ownership change completes a two-year transition between Goodnight and former SBJ owner Jennifer Jackson. Plans for the business sale were first announced in December 2023. Jackson became owner in 2016 following the retirement of her mother and SBJ founder Dianne Elizabeth Osis.

“Goodnight, who initially worked for SBJ from June 2016 to December 2020, serving first as chief revenue officer and later as associate publisher, returned to the business in 2024 after three years as director of marketing at Classy Llama Studios LLC, an e-commerce marketing, branding and consulting firm.

“Goodnight declined to disclose financial terms of the agreement but said he formed Lucky Seven Media LLC with his wife, Shallina, to buy the company assets from Jackson. The LLC does business as SBJ Media, he said.”

Read more here. The publication is based in Missouri.

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.

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