Alex Orfinger, the publisher of the Washington Business Journal, is leaving the American City Business Journals publication.
Editor in chief Douglas Fruehling writes, “Orfinger, 65, announced his decision to Business Journal staff Tuesday at the company’s office in Rosslyn. He will continue as publisher and market president until a replacement is named later this year; he will remain as an adviser with American City Business Journals Inc., WBJ’s parent company.
“His time atop the masthead at the region’s only publication dedicated to business spanned the highs and lows of Greater Washington, from the D.C. Financial Control Board and the dot-com boom and subsequent bomb to the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic. His tenure, the longest for a publisher at the 44-year-old publication, coincided with five D.C. mayors and five U.S. presidents.
“The same issue that announced his hire in 1996 — in print, of course — featured another short story on Page 1: The Business Journal was going online, launching a home page as part of ACBJ’s nascent digital effort.”
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