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New Quad Cities biz journal set to launch

The publisher of the weekly Corridor Business Journal is set to launch a new Quad Cities Regional Business Journal  in Iowa.

The publication will cover business news in the greater Quad Cities area including the counties of Rock Island, Henry, and Mercer in Illinois, and Scott, Clinton, and Muscatine counties in Iowa.

The content will be distributed through daily e-mail newsletters, a website and a bi-weekly printed publication.

The QCBJ newsroom will be led by editor Jennifer DeWitt, a longtime Quad-City Times journalist, and senior reporter Kenda Burrows, a veteran journalist and former editorial page editor/writer with the Moline Dispatch and Rock Island Argus in Illinois.

Additional reporters and freelancers are also being recruited.

QCBJ will also regularly produce podcasts and newsletters and host several business network and recognition events including Forty Under 40.

Read more here.

Mariam Ahmed

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