Categories: OLD Media Moves

Springfield Business Journal is sold

Central Illinois Communications, parent company of the Illinois Times, has  purchased the Springfield Business Journal.

A story on the State Journal-Register website states, “‘I have admired the Business Journal ever since it came to Springfield 18 years ago,’ CIC president Fletcher Farrar said in a statement. ‘We look forward to continuing its traditions while building on the foundation it has laid.’

“The Business Journal is a monthly publication. Illinois Times publishes weekly.

“Farrar said the publications would share Illinois Times space at 1240 S. Sixth St. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. Brant Mackey, publisher of the Springfield Business Journal since 2006, said he plans to pursue a teaching career. Mackey has a bachelor’s degree in education.

Michelle Higgenbotham has been named associate publisher of the Business Journal. Higgenbotham worked at the Business Journal for five years before going into commercial real estate.”

Read more here.

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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