Categories: OLD Media Moves

American City Business Journals buys lacrosse magazine

American City Business Journals, the parent company of 41 weekly business newspapers across the country, has bought a lacrosse magazine to add to its sports publications, according to a story on its bizjournals.com web site. Terms were not disclosed.

The story stated, “Founded in 1997 by Robert Carpenter, Inside Lacrosse is the premier media company in lacrosse and is known to continually be on the cutting edge of the sport’s rapid growth. Inside Lacrosse includes Inside Lacrosse Magazine, the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic, Inside Lacrosse on ESPN, Face-Off Yearbook, InsideLacrosse.com, InsideLacrosse.com Video, LacrosseForums.com and several other products and services unique to the sport. Inside Lacrosse is also an online lacrosse partner with ESPN.com.

“As part of American City, Inside Lacrosse will join the two most venerable brands in sports publishing, Street & Smith’s Sports and Sporting News.

“‘I really do believe this partnership will prove to be one of the most substantial and positive deals to happen to the sport of lacrosse, speaking of the past or of the future,’ Carpenter says. ‘We’ve always tried to push the envelope and provide lacrosse with the media stature other major sports enjoy, but our ideas are often bigger than our capacity to execute them. Now American City is going to guide us into the future with their resources, knowledge and experience in the sports publishing industry.'”

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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.