American City Business Journals

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American City Business Journals is an American newspaper chain based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Its chairman is Ray Shaw.

Through 41 primary metropolitan weekly publications, the company reaches 4 million readers with in-depth coverage of their business communities. It also publishes Street & Smith's Sports Group, which publishes motorsports periodicals, as well as SportsBusiness Journal, Sports Business Daily, and five sports annuals. The company also is the United States' leading publisher of NASCAR magazines.

The company also publishes specialty publications, which include a high-tech business newspaper, a law journal, and Hemmings Motor News, the "bible" of the collector-car hobby.

In October 2006, the company acquired The Sporting News.

It is a unit of Advance Publications Inc., which also operates Conde Nast Magazines, The New Yorker, Parade magazine, Newhouse Newspapers and other publishing and cable television operations.

The company also operates Bizjournals, which portals to Web sites of the company's 41 print business journals, as well as a Web-only local business news and information site for Los Angeles, California. The Web site features local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, top business stories from the company's print editions, industry-specific news from more than 40 industries, advice columns, and tools to help business owners and operators manage their businesses.

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[edit] Recognition

  • Characterized among the "Best of the Web" by Forbes magazine, Bizjournals contains more than 750,000 business news articles published since 1996.

[edit] Newspapers

[edit] Bizjournals

Bizjournals logo
Bizjournals logo

Bizjournals is an online media division of American City Business Journals, the United States' largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers.

It operates Web sites for each of the company's 41 print business journals as well as its first Web-only local business news and information site for Los Angeles, California. The company plans to launch Web-only operations in additional markets.

The site features local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, as well as top business stories from American City's print editions, industry-specific news from more than 40 industries, advice columns, and tools to help business owners and operators manage their businesses.

The site features an archive that contains more than 750,000 business news articles published since 1996, and receives more than 4 million unique visitors each month.

E-mail offerings include daily local business updates from any Bizjournals market, as well as weekly updates of industry news from throughout the country. The site also features online local jobs boards, local online business directories, downloadable sales leads and strategic partnership opportunities.

[edit] External links

  • [43] [[Bizjournals]
  • [44] [[Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal]
  • [45] [[Hemmings Motor News]