Categories: OLD Media Moves

Tampa Bay Inno is launching next week

American Inno, which covers startups, technology and innovation in multiple markets, is launching a new site in the Tampa Bay market next week.

Tampa Bay Inno will be its 12th site. It will have a twice-a-week newsletter, The Beat, as well as a website that will have news, analysis, careers, events, and data.

Lauren Coffey, a reporter at the Tampa Bay Business Journal, will be leading the newsletter and website.

American Inno, which is part of American City Business Journals, is looking to expand this year in Charlotte, Indianapolis, Detroit, Nashville, Houston and Pittsburgh.

It already operates sites in cities such as Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Madison/Milwaukee, Washington and Austin.

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.