Categories: OLD Media Moves

Biz desk promotions at AnnArbor.com

Paula Gardner, who has overseen business news coverage for AnnArbor.com since it launched in 2009, has been news director while Nathan Bomey, a business reporter, moved up to replace her.

Tony Dearing writes, “In late 2002, Gardner left the Free Press to report for the startup Ann Arbor Business Review, which launched in January 2003. She later took over as editor of that edition and Oakland Business Review, and later led the print and online editorial direction for the statewide Michigan Business Review team.

“When we launched in July 2009, the Ann Arbor Business Review became part of AnnArbor.com and Gardner and Bomey joined our staff.

“Gardner led that transition, and has built a large and rapidly growing online audience for local business coverage, emphasizing credibility and immediacy in the reporting that appears on our web site, as well as a Business Review section that appears every Sunday in print. She also has been the driver behind our weekly Business Review weekly email newsletter and breaking-news alerts.

“Gardner, a University of Michigan graduate, lives in Ann Arbor with her husband and children, and she’s active in neighborhood and school activities.

“Bomey, a 2006 political science and journalism graduate of Eastern Michigan University, got involved in journalism as a junior at Saline High School in 2001, when he became a part-time staff writer at The Saline Reporter and The Milan News-Leader. He graduated from Saline High in 2002 but maintained his job as a reporter for the weekly newspapers throughout his college career. At EMU, he held several leadership positions at the student newspaper, The Eastern Echo, including managing editor and news editor.”