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Building a business newspaper

Dennis Curran, the editor and publisher of the Wyoming Business Report, reflects back on how the monthly paper has grown as it turns nine years old.

Curran writes, “We started with just one staff person — me — and an office in a basement — mine — and some help from a sister business newspaper in Colorado, the Northern Colorado Business Report. We came out quarterly then, and I recall our top stories were about ranch sales and the Wyoming Business Council surviving a legislative attempt to cut its funding.

“Today the Business Report is published monthly, and we have a free daily e-newsletter that provides subscribers with the day’s top breaking news stories and is available on our Web site. Did I mention that our eDaily is free?

“We’ve moved out of the basement to offices in Cheyenne, Casper and Lander, but our staff is still pretty lean — there are only six of us to write and edit the news and sell advertising — and we still relay on our sister paper in Fort Collins for billing, circulation, human resources, layout, production and help with our special events.”

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