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Inside Business part of Tronc purchase of Virginian-Pilot

Business publication Inside Business is part of Tronc Inc.’s publication of The Virginian-Pilot newspaper for $34 million, according to a story on its website.

The story states, “Inside Business is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pilot Media.

“Also included in the sale are other subsidiary and specialty publications, such as Richmond-based Style Weekly, and The Flagship, which covers regional military news. Real estate, including The Pilot’s longtime headquarters building at 150 W. Brambleton Ave. in downtown Norfolk, and a printing plant at 5429 Greenwich Road in Virginia Beach, also are part of the transaction.

“Inside Business first published in November 1995. It is part of Pilot Targeted Media, a division of Landmark Media Enterprises. The regional business journal is printed weekly. Its news, advertising and management staff work out of The Pilot’s Brambleton Avenue building.”

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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.