Categories: OLD Media Moves

Wisconsin biz publication ceases

The Capital Region Business Journal, a monthly online magazine produced by the Wisconsin State Journal, is publishing its last edition this month.

A story in the State Journal states, “The print magazine was launched in April 2005 for business leaders in nine counties, and it later became a web publication.

“Its most popular features will be preserved to anchor a new business data center online, expected to start this summer on the State Journal’s business web pages.

“Newspaper staff members working on the Business Journal will shift their focus to the newspaper’s core print and web operations.”

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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.