Categories: OLD Media Moves

Central Penn Biz Journal sold to Gatehouse Media

The Central Penn Business Journal will be sold to Gatehouse Media newspaper chain, reports Teresa Bonner of the Patriot News in Harrisburg.

Bonner writes, “The employees were told that Central Penn’s parent company, Journal Multimedia, accepted an offer to sell to Pittsford, N.Y.-based Gatehouse. Gatehouse owns more than 500 newspapers across 31 states. In Pennsylvania, the company owns the Erie Times-News and and The Record-Herald in Waynesboro, among other papers.

“Central Penn Business Journal, based in Harrisburg, is owned by David A. Schankweiler, CEO of Journal Multimedia and publisher of the business journal, and Lawrence M. Kluger, president of Journal MultiMedia.

“The Business Journal has been published for more than 30 years. According to its website, it has a circulation of more than 10,000.”

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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.