Media association to honor publisher of Pittsburgh biz paper

Alan Robertson, the longtime publisher of the Pittsburgh Business Times, will receive an Outstanding Achievement in Media Award from the Media Association of Pittsburgh.

A story on the weekly business newspaper’s website states, “Robertson has been publisher of the Pittsburgh Business Times since 1990. He is also a group publisher with the Business Times’ parent company, American City Business Journals. In addition to the Pittsburgh Business Times, he is also responsible for the Dayton Business Journal in Dayton, Ohio; The Business Journal in the Greater Triad Area of North Carolina; the Jacksonville Business Journal in Jacksonville, Fla.; and Buffalo Business First in Buffalo, N.Y. He was named group publisher in 2010.

“Before moving to Pittsburgh, Robertson was editor of the Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee for six years. He started in the newspaper business in 1978 at the Dead Mountain Echo, a weekly in Oakridge, Ore., that quickly drove a 70-year-old competitor out of business. In 1980, he became a police reporter at the La Grande Observer, a daily in La Grande, Ore., and then he joined the editorial staff at the Herald and News in Klamath Falls, Ore., as a copy editor and food editor.

“Alan has a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif., and a Master of Science in journalism from the University of Oregon in Eugene.”

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