Categories: OLD Media Moves

Entrepreneur signs partnership deal with cannabis website

Entrepreneur Media, the parent company of Entrepreneur magazine, announced a partnership deal Wednesday with Dispensaries.com, which provides news and information about the cannabis industry.

The agreement means that Entrepreneur’s website will now include content on business ventures, which includes cultivators, edible creators and extractors, in the cannabis sector.

“As a trusted source for the entrepreneurial community, we want to further educate our readers on industries having an impact on the economy,” said Ryan Shea, CEO of Entrepreneur Media, in a statement. “We are pleased to partner with dispensaries.com and continue as a rich resource of content on up-and-coming businesses to better inform our audience with insights on the cannabis industry.”

Dispensaries.com includes links to retailers around the country who sell cannabis products, as well as marijuana and cannabis delivery services.

“Entrepreneur Media is the ideal partner for us to increase exposure and opportunity for entrepreneurs entering the cannabis industry,” says Vinay Jatwani, founder of dispensaries.com, in a statement. “We are excited to provide our clients with powerful and knowledgeable content from Entrepreneur, which has a prestigious track record of aspiring businesses in a vast number of industries.”

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.

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