Nashville Biz Journal hires new reporter
Nashville Business Journal editor Lance Williams sent out the following announcement to the staff: I’m happy to announce that we have hired Jamie McGee as our newest reporter. Jamie, a Nashville native, will primarily cover the tourism and hospitality beat, which also includes music and entertainment, sports business and restaurants. She will also cover the […]
Biz weekly splits ME duties as it explores new products
Talking Biz News reported Saturday that the Boston Business Journal had hired Jon Chesto, the business editor of the Quincy Patriot Ledger, to be its managing editor for print. The internal announcement from executive editor George Donnelly hints at a strategic shift within the newsroom: We’re splitting the managing editor job in two, and I […]
Massachusetts daily biz editor leaves for Boston biz weekly
Jon Chesto, the business editor of the Quincy Patriot Ledger for the past eight years, has left the paper to take a job at the Boston Business Journal. He will become managing editor of print for the American City Business Journals paper. Chesto writes, “For my first Mass. Market column in 2004, I predicted that […]
Seattle biz journal hires new reporter
Business reporter Marc Stiles has joined the Puget Sound Business Journal as a staff writer covering commercial real estate and government. Erin Van Bronkhurst of the paper writes, “Stiles reported for the Seattle-based Daily Journal of Commerce for a total of eight years, covering commercial real estate, Sound Transit and Seattle City Hall. “He has […]
Impersonating a business journalist on Twitter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE If imitation is a sincere form of flattery, then Atlanta Business Chronicle tech writer Urvaksh Karkaria must be extremely flattered. Karkaria has a Twitter feed at @Urvaksh that has nearly 3,000 followers. And now, there’s someone posting at @TheRealUrvaksh poking fun of him. It has about 140 followers. There are other business […]
Biz weekly sees strong online advertising growth
Tom Monahan, the publisher of Business First of Louisville, an American City Business Journals publication, writes about how it is continuing to grow after being around for 28 years. Monahan writes, “Online advertising revenue will increase more than 100 percent this year, the second consecutive year to do so. But it’s important to note that […]
Remembering Randi Weinstein’s passion for business journalism
Don Henninger, the publisher of the Phoenix Business Journal, writes about the paper’s managing editor, Randi Weinstein, who died last week at the age of 40. Henninger writes, “She had been with the paper for the past 12 years, and was our managing editor for the past six. Three words will forever come to mind […]
Bloomberg to produce political convention mag with ACBJ
Bloomberg News plans to produce a daily magazine at both political conventions this summer in conjunction with two newspapers from American City Business Journals. Margaret Cashill of the Tampa Bay Business Journal writes, “Bloomberg plans to bring about 150 people to the RNC and plans to create a daily magazine, the Bloomberg Insider, to be […]
Phoenix Biz Journal ME dies at 40
Randi Weinstein, the managing editor of the Phoenix Business Journal, died Monday in her sleep. She was 40. A story on the paper’s website states, “She was born in New York state and raised in Kansas. She graduated in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas, where she was a […]
Puget Sound Business Journal folds Tech Flash back into site
In October 2008, the Puget Sound Business Journal hired two tech reporters from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and let them start a standalone tech site called TechFlash. But in March 2011, the two journalists left the American City Business Journals newspaper and started a tech news site of their own called GeekWire. Since then the Business […]
