ACBJ purchases digital media company
American City Business Journals said Friday it has acquired Streetwise Media, a digital media company catering to young business people in Boston and Washington, D.C. A story on its bizjournals.com website states, “Charlotte, N.C.-based ACBJ, a unit of Advance Publications, declined to disclose terms of the transaction. “Streetwise currently operates two websites – BostInno in […]
Tennessean names new biz editor
Lance Williams, the editor of the Nashville Business Journal, has been named business editor of The Tennessean, the daily paper in Nashville. Eric Snyder, the assistant managing editor of the weekly, writes, “Williams was named editor of the Nashville Business Journal in spring 2008, having previously led the Austin Business Journal. Williams joined American City […]
A biz journalist who doesn’t vote
Colin Pope, the editor of the Austin Business Journal in Texas, writes about his no-voting policy. Pope writes, “I started the no-voting practice in the 1990s when I was assigned to the City Hall beat at a daily newspaper. I was uncomfortable with the expectation of fairly covering politics professionally, and then personally I was […]
The metamorphosis of American City Business Journals
The 40 business newspapers operated by American City Business Journals across the country will be undergoing some changes in the next few months that will place more emphasis on delivering news digitally. The changes are beginning to roll out in the newsrooms now and include new job descriptions, redesigned print newspapers and newsroom structure changes. […]
Cincinnati biz journal redesigns paper
Rob Daumeyer, the editor of the Cincinnati Business Courier, writes Friday about some design changes made to the paper. Daumeyer writes, “Our business reporting staff – senior reporters Dan Monk and Lucy May, reporters Steve Watkins, James Ritchie and Jon Newberry and digital producer/reporter Tom Demeropolis – are constantly talking to their sources, digging for […]
Crain’s paper, ACBJ paper place wager on World Series
Crain’s Detroit Business and the San Francisco Business Times have placed a small wager on the outcome of the World Series. According to a story on the Crain’s Detroit site, “Native Michiganian and now Bay Area resident Ron Leuty, the biotech reporter for the Business Times, admits to being ‘conflicted.’ He loves his new adopted […]
Orlando Biz Journal publisher to retire
Orlando Business Journal publisher Ann Sonntag announced her retirement after 21 years with parent company American City Business Journals and 16 years as head of ACBJ’s Orlando paper. A story on the paper’s website states, “Sonntag joined ACBJ in May 1991 as ad director in Charlotte, N.C., then transferred to Orlando in September 1995 as […]
ACBJ names its best papers
Charlotte-based American City Business Journals, which operates 40 business newspapers across the country, has named its best papers in a variety of categories. The winners are: Best use of social media: Boston Business Journal Best page one: Milwaukee Business Journal Best special section in paper: Orlando Business Journal Best special section out of paper: Buffalo […]
Perelman invests in business newspaper
Investor and philanthropist Raymond Perelman has made an investment in Region’s Business, a weekly “Journal of Business and Politics” started in a Plymouth Meeting office by former Philadelphia Metro publisher James McDonald last summer, reports Joe DiStefano of the Philadelphia Inquirer. DiStefano writes, “McDonald and Perelman won’t say how much Perelman invested. Regions Business, written […]
ACBJ paper names new editor, new ME
The New Mexico Business Weekly, an American City Business Journals paper, announced Friday the appointment of a new editor-in-chief and managing editor, effective Oct. 1. A story on the paper’s website states, “Joe Renaud has been promoted to the newly created position of editor-in-chief and Rachel Sams has been promoted to the new position of […]
