Categories: OLD Media Moves

Minnesota Business magazine to cease operations

Minnesota Business, which covers small and mid-sized companies, will stop publishing with its November/December issue, reports Alex Wittenberg of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

Wittenberg writes, “The magazine, which is owned by Minneapolis-based Tiger Oak Media Inc., will cease operations at the end of this year, Executive Editor Megan Effertz confirmed Wednesday in an interview.

“There are nine people on staff at Minnesota Business, Effertz said. Each staff member will be reassigned to other Tiger Oak publications. The company also owns Minnesota Bride magazine and Seattle Business magazine, among others.

“‘We’ve had a great year, with many inspiring stories, new readers both online and off, and back-to-back sold out events,’ Effertz said in an email statement to a businessperson on Monday that was obtained by the Business Journal on Wednesday. ‘Although we’d love to share every story of every Minnesota company and business leader, the time has come for us to say, ‘Stop the presses!’ ”

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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.