Winter hired by Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal as a reporter

Reporter Deena Winter joined the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal this week to cover retail residential real estate, homebuilding and manufacturing. A story on its website states: Tell us about your journalism background: I did my first summer internship at a newspaper in Bismarck, N.D., 30 years ago, and have been working in the field since, starting […]

Milwaukee Biz Journal hires Naczek as manufacturing/tourism reporter

The Milwaukee Business Journal has hired Margaret Naczek to be its manufacturing and tourism reporter. Naczek has been a sports reporter with USA Today Network-Wisconsin where she covered local sports in the Oshkosh and Fond du Lac area. On Twitter, she wrote, “I cannot begin this new career endeavor without expressing my appreciation for the […]

Philadelphia Biz Journal seeks a reporter

The Philadelphia Business Journal is looking for a reporter who can marry strong traditional journalism skills – source building, sharp news judgment, interviewing prowess, strong analytical and investigative reporting, clear writing, document use – with online and social media know-how. Whatever the platform, this reporter will produce content that is accompanied by perspective and context […]

Biz journalist takes San Fran job to get out of comfort zone

Doug Fruehling, the new editor of the San Francisco Business Times, writes that he took his new position because he had gotten comfortable in Washington. Fruehling writes, “People keep asking me why I decided to leave a job I loved and a city I adored. To catch you up: Although I am not from D.C., […]

Houston Biz Journal seeks economic development reporter

Houston Business Journal is looking for a top-notch reporter to cover economic development. The economic development beat is the essence of top-level reporting. It requires building — and working — strong source networks to break big news, dig out trends and connect dots before anyone else does. The ideal candidate sees important community issues clearly, […]

Sports Business Journal hires chief revenue officer

Sports Business Journal announced Monday the hiring of Eileen Silvergleid as chief revenue officer. She will oversee all revenue, including ad sales, conference sponsorship, partnerships and circulation. “I’m excited to welcome Eileen to SBJ,” said Abraham Madkour, publisher and executive editor of Sports Business Journal/Daily, in a statement. “As we look across all our current […]

Columbus Biz First reporter Bench is departing

Columbus Business First reporter Emily Bench is leaving the American City Business Journals paper. Her last day is Friday. She covered Ohio State University, tourism and the business of sports. Before joining the paper, Bench was a freelance writer for the Columbus Dispatch. She also was a freelance writer for the Ohio Campus Compact. Bench […]

Warfield joins Triad Business Journal as reporter

Andy Warfield has joined Triad Business Journal as its new manufacturing, economic development and aviation reporter. He replaces Luke Bollinger, who left for a job outside of journalism. Warfield worked previously as the editor of Lee and Collier counties for the Gulf Coast Business Observer. From July 2017 to May 2018, he was the associate […]

Philadelphia Biz Journal seeks editor in chief

Philadelphia Business Journal is looking for an editor-in-chief. As the highest-ranking newsroom leader, the EIC is responsible for driving newsroom culture, product strategy and quality journalism across all platforms. The EIC will lead the news team to relentlessly build an engaged audience. The EIC must be equally at home in both print and digital, with […]

Wittenberg leaves Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

Alex Wittenberg is leaving his role as a reporter at Minneapolis/St Paul Business Journal. He will be studying magazine writing at New York University. Wittenberg began his role as a reporter in August 2018. Prior to that, he was an editorial intern at MSPBJ. He was also the editor of the Wake Student Magazine from […]