Categories: OLD Media Moves

ACBJ’s Streetwise Media names new president

Streetwise Media, which operates technology and entrepreneurship news sites in four cities, announced Geoff Shaw will be president of the company.

Shaw, formerly chief operating officer at Sporting News, will oversee Streetwise’s four markets — Boston (BostInno); Washington, D.C. (DC Inno); Chicago (Chicago Inno); and Austin, Texas (Austin Inno).

“We’re in an age of tremendous technological change and not all of it — maybe not even most of it, in the long run — will come out of Silicon Valley,” Shaw said in a statement. “We’re already publishing stories and bringing people together at events in four of the most innovative, entrepreneurial cities in the world. I’m looking forward to building there and heading into new ones.”

Shaw replaces Leslie Garbarino as president of Streetwise.

Shaw will be based out of the Charlotte, N.C., headquarters of Streetwise’s parent company, American City Business Journals, a division of Advance Publications.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.