Portland Biz Journal unveils design
Rob Smith, the editor of the Portland Business Journal, writes about the paper’s redesign. Smith writes, “The paper features a splashy new design, a centerpiece package based around important news, expanded treatment of our popular weekly lists and analysis and insight from our reporters on stories they’ve been covering all week. “We’re also emphasizing expanded […]
Triangle Business Journal names new managing editor
Rebecca Troyer, the opinion editor of The Daily Press in Newport News, Va., has been named the new managing editor of the Triangle Business Journal. She replaces Dale Gibson, who is retiring from the American City Business Journals paper on Friday. At the Daily Press, Troyer is responsible for the planning, writing and editing of […]
Behind the Kansas City Business Journal redesign
Newspaper design expert Mario Garcia has posted page examples of the redesign at the Kansas City Business Journal and parts of an interview between Jon Wile, creative director for American City Business Journals, and publisher Joyce Hayhow, and editor Brian Kaberline about the nearly year-long transition their news operation has gone through. Here is an excerpt: […]
Philadelphia Business Journal unveils redesign
Philadelphia Business Journal editor Craig Ey and publisher Lyn Kremer wrote the following about the redesign of the American City Business Jouranls’ paper: So what does that mean for our weekly edition? The product is, quite simply, better than ever. Each week, we take a deep dive into an issue — and, quite often, a […]
North Carolina biz journal ME to retire
Dale Gibson, who has been the managing editor of the Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh, N.C., for more than 20 years, is retiring next month. Gibson manages the day-to-day process of putting out the paper, and he handles inquiries on news coverage and newspaper deadlines. He has also written a popular weekly column. Gibson served as […]
Florida biz journal hires managing editor
Timothy Gibbons, business editor at the Times-Union, is leaving to become managing editor at the Jacksonville Business Journal. Kate Howard Perry of the Times-Union writes, “Gibbons has been with the Times-Union for 11 years. He will start at the business publication in mid-July. “‘I look forward to using the skills and experience I’ve developed over […]
How biz journalists are like drones
Washington Business Journal publisher Alex Orfinger compared the business journalists who work at the American City Business Journals paper are like drones.
Seattle biz reporter leaves paper
Puget Sound Business Journal staff writer Greg Lamm, who last year won a national Sigma Delta Chi journalism award for “Other people’s money,” a series of in-depth stories about Seattle financier Darren Berg, who was convicted of fraud and money laundering, has left the paper, Talking Biz News has learned. Lamm covered banking and finance for the […]
Biz weekly focusing more on context, not breaking news
Kevin Bumgarner, the editor of the Pacific Business News in Honolulu, writes about how the American City Business Journal paper’s redesign changes the way it covers news. Bumgarner writes, “We know that many of you use print and PCs, tablets and smartphones to get information at different times. When you need to get information as […]
ACBJ publisher in San Antonio retires
American City Business Journals CEO Whitney Shaw sent out the following announcement to the company on Thursday: Kent Krauss is retiring after a distinguished 30-year career as a business journal reporter, editor and publisher. By any definition, Kent has helped build not just individual business journals but our industry as a whole. As I’ve gotten […]
