Categories: OLD Media Moves

Charleston business journal sold

The Charleston Regional Business Journal has been sold to a group that has bought other weekly business newspapers in the past year, according to a story in the paper Friday morning.

Dan McCue wrote, “Brown Publishingâ€™s purchase of Setcom Media is its third such acquisition of a market-leading business publisher in the past five months.

“In September, the company purchased the Des Moines, Iowa-based Business Publications Corp., publisher of the Des Moines Business Record and a variety of other niche and custom publications, and the Fort Worth Business Press of Fort Worth, Texas. Both firms belong to the same trade association as the Charleston Regional Business Journal

“Brown Publishing plans to add two other business publications to its roster of publications by the middle of the year, he said.

“Settlemyer approached Brown Publishing after learning of the earlier acquisitions, he said.”

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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.