Rhode Island biz magazine launches

Rhode Island Monthly has launched a quarterly business magazine called BrandRI.

Christine Dunn of the Providence Journa writes, “BrandRI, with its April issue, replaces Rhode Island Business Quarterly, according to Robin Erickson, the company’s director of marketing & sales promotion. Erickson said the rebranded publication will be mailed along with Rhode Island Monthly to subscribers, and it will also be sent to members of the chambers of commerce serving Providence, Northern Rhode Island and Newport.

“Erickson said the company’s special publications team will be responsible for Engaged, Home Design and BrandRI, as well as contract publications for travel and tourism offices in the state.”

Read more here. The magazine is expected to have readership of 110,000 and an average household income of $172,750.

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.