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Online business journal launches in upstate New York

Tina Traster

Longtime journalist Tina Traster has launched an online business journal, the Rockland County Business Journal, in upstate New York.

Rockland has not had a publication entirely focused on business. The Business Journal will cover business from solo entrepreneurs to corporate entities. Daily postings include breaking news, profiles, features, briefs and columns.

The site is generating revenue through advertising and sponsorships.

Traster moved to Rockland County 14 years ago from Manhattan. She has worked for Crain’s New York Business and for The New York Post, writing real estate stories and a real estate column. She also wrote both a real estate and personal money column for Inside Magazine, which is published by The Jewish Exponent.

“Up in Rockland, I’ve watched the media landscape turn into a desert,” said Traster in an email to Talking Biz News. “There is little to no business coverage. While other surrounding suburban counties do have business publications, Rockland lacked one. I decided to fill that gap.”

Traster has been reporting most of the articles on the website now, but it is also running columns and think pieces from experts in several fields.

“By next year, I will be looking for freelance journalists,” said Traster.

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.

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