Categories: OLD Media Moves

LA Business Journal names new publisher

Anna Magzanyan, executive vice president for sales and marketing at the Los Angeles Business Journal, is assuming the role of publisher.

She is replacing Matt Toledo, who is leaving to become CEO of a business networking company.

A story on its website states, “The Business Journal will continue to serve the community of business in Los Angeles with timely, accurate and relevant content, according to Magzanyan.

“‘This is a very exciting time for our business,’ she said. ‘I’m looking forward to adding to our multidimensional products to deliver our news, and to crafting mutually beneficial relationships for the leaders in this business community. There is no other city in the world that embraces an entrepreneurial spirit more than Los Angeles.’

“Magzanyan brings vast experience from her previous positions at Omnia Media, The Hollywood Reporter, iHeart Radio and Los Angeles Times.

“She holds an undergraduate degree from Cal State Northridge and a master’s from the University of La Verne.”

Read more here.

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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