Categories: OLD Media Moves

North Carolina biz journal has new part owner

The parent company of the Greater Wilmington Business Journal and Wilma magazine has a new part owner, officials announced Thursday.

Vicky Janowski of the paper writes, “Robert Preville now owns half of SAJ Media LLC along with Rob Kaiser, according to a statement from Kaiser, who purchased the publications in 2007.

“Preville said the deal was finalized Wednesday for an undisclosed amount.

“Kaiser said the partnership would help strengthen the publications’ reach into new formats.

“What publishers need these days are geeks, and the Business Journal and Wilma now have a super-geek,’ Kaiser said in the statement. ‘RB [Preville] has a rare combination of technology and business talents. He not only pounds out the code that powers his companies, he’s also very sharp at business strategy, building sales operations, marketing and customer service.'”

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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.