Ingram’s seeks an editor

Ingram’s magazine in Kansas City, a 50-year-old business publication covering key economic sectors in the bistate region of Missouri and Kansas, seeks a senior leader to direct our editorial print production for the monthly magazine and collaborate with our digital staff producing daily newsletters and breaking news for the Web. We’re looking for a no-nonsense, […]

Twin Cities Business founding publisher Cohen dies at 94

Burt Cohen, the founding publisher of Mpls.St.Paul and Twin Cities Business, died Saturday at the age of 94. Allison Kaplan of Twin Cities Business writes, “By the late 1980s, Cohen, Johnson, and Anderson started discussing the need for a different sort of business magazine—one that, as Cohen described on By All Means, ‘looked at the pros and cons of everything […]

Ablan hired as editor of Hawaii Business magazine

Business journalist Jennifer Ablan has been hired to be the next editor of Hawaii Business magazine. She will start May 7. A story on its website states, “Ablan joins Hawaii Business Magazine from Pensions & Investments, an international publication of money management, where she served as its editor-in-chief and chief content officer. Ablan’s team introduced Twitter Spaces, LinkedIn Live […]

St. Louis Magazine seeks a business editor

SLM Media Group—the locally owned and operated publisher of a suite of newsletters, podcasts, St. Louis Magazine, stlmag.com, and events—is looking for a highly motivated, talented Business Editor. The ideal candidate should have a passion for providing relevant content across platforms for local business leaders and entrepreneurs. This role requires excellent communication skills, creative problem-solving, […]

Biz magazine owner: “Be exceptional at a narrow thing”

Simon Owens interviewed Mitch Bettis, owner of Arkansas Business Publishing about his business strategy and his success. Founded in 1974, the company operates dozens of local, niche publications that mostly operate in the business-to-business space. The company growing, and it’s managed to expand its print readership over the past decade. “I couldn’t believe a place like this […]

Business in Vancouver promotes Orton to ME

Business in Vancouver has promoted Tyler Orton to managing editor. A story on its website states, “Orton’s proven expertise in journalism and deep understanding of the British Columbia business landscape will continue to bring immense value to BIV’s editorial initiatives. “In this role, Orton will work with BIV’s leadership team to support the integrity, evolution and growth […]

Twin Cities Business seeks an associate editor

Twin Cities Business seeks an enthusiastic, efficient, problem-solving editor who is interested in creating and managing content across platforms. This editor will oversee special print sections and guides, help to curate and assemble TCB’s daily e-newsletter, help to create social media content for TCB’s channels. This editor will also have the opportunity to write and report news and feature stories, both for online and print. […]

How the oldest regional biz magazine got its start

Beverly Creamer writes for Hawaii Business magazine about its start in 1955, which makes it the oldest regional business magazine in the country. Creamer writes, “And Ethel and Joe Murphy launched a magazine in July called Hawaii Engineer. By August 1962, the monthly had morphed into Hawaii Business; today it’s known as the first and oldest regional […]

A biz editor looking forward to retirement

Steve Petranik, the editor of Hawaii Business magazine, writes about why he’s looking forward to retirement later this year. Petranik writes, “I will be retiring in a few months as editor and executive publisher of Hawaii Business Magazine. Kent Coules has been promoted from co-publisher to publisher and will do an excellent job as HB’s leader. I […]

Hawaii Business magazine editor Petranik is retiring

Steve Petranik, editor and executive publisher of Hawaii Business magazine, plans to retire later this year. He has been at the publication since January 2009. Petranik spent five years at the Honolulu Advertiser and more than 17 years at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in editing roles. He also worked at the Toronto Star and United Press […]

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