Burt Cohen, the founding publisher of Mpls.St.Paul and Twin Cities Business, died Saturday at the age of 94.
Allison Kaplan of Twin Cities Business writes, “By the late 1980s, Cohen, Johnson, and Anderson started discussing the need for a different sort of business magazine—one that, as Cohen described on By All Means, ‘looked at the pros and cons of everything going on, all the while acknowledging that business is the life blood of the community and the state.’
“Twin Cities Business Monthly launched in September 1993 with Cohen as its founding publisher.
“‘We changed the local business marketplace by focusing on the challenges and opportunities business owners managed, their triumphs and their failures, their creative solutions, their big personalities and their business savvy,’ Johnson said. ‘It was welcomed with open arms, and Burt thrived, wowing advertisers, business organizations, and the city’s movers and shakers as TCB’s entertaining and simpatico spokesperson. Needless to say, the competition went out of business, and TCB has gone on to a long and successful run.'”
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