Categories: OLD Media Moves

Nashville Post acquires business news website

The Nashville Post has acquired regional online business publication Southern/alpha, which covers start-ups and entrepreneurship in the South.

A story on the Post website states, “Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Southern/alpha launched in 2012 under co-founder and Chairman Marcus Whitney, Founding Editor Walker Duncan and co-founder and CEO Kelley Boothe. Since the acquisition, Boothe has assumed the title of Southern/alpha editor and publisher while also contributing to the Post.

“Southern/alpha will continue to cover economic trends and the development of startups and entrepreneurial ecosystems throughout the region, according to Chris Ferrell, SouthComm president.

“‘Kelley has done a great job launching Southern/alpha and building a great following among people interested in startups in Nashville and the rest of the South,’ Ferrell said. ‘Given our resources and geographical footprint, I am excited about the opportunity to help Southern/alpha reach its full potential.'”

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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.