Categories: OLD Media Moves

ROI-NJ doubled staff in its first year

Tom Bergeron, editor in chief of ROI-NJ, writes about the business publication’s first year of operation on its anniversary.

Bergeron writes, “Today marks the anniversary of when the website for ROI-NJ.com went live.

“We only had six people on staff then (we have 13 now), but we were determined to bring news and information to an audience of influencers in a new and unique way.

“We think we’ve done that.

“We have produced 3,337 pieces of online content (this is 3,338) on a variety of topics around business, government and lifestyle. And we have produced 39 print editions.

“This is a note of thanks to our readers — our digital and print numbers continue to grow on a steady pace.

“And it’s also a note of thanks to our advertisers. After all, the free press isn’t free to produce.”

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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.