Categories: OLD Media Moves

Scripps buys business journal

The E.W. Scripps Co., publisher of the Kitsap Sun in Washington state, has acquired the Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal for an undisclosed amount.

A story on the business journal’s website states, “Scripps bought the Journal from Wet Apple Media, a Port Orchard company owned by Lary and Dee Coppola. The purchase, announced March 20, includes the monthly print publication, websites and mobile application. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

“Kitsap Sun publisher Brent Morris said the Journal will remain a separately branded print product. The Sun will begin operating the Journal on April 1. The Journal is already printed by the Sun.

“Morris said the acquisition of the Journal was an opportunity for Scripps to extend its coverage of the West Sound business community and reach new advertisers.”

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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.