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Advance Publications is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse. It is named after the Staten Island Advance, the first newspaper owned by the Newhouse family.

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[edit] Subsidiaries

[edit] American City Business Journals

ACBJ-published Pacific Business News
ACBJ-published Pacific Business News

American City Business Journals is an American newspaper chain based in Charlotte, North Carolina owned by Advance Publications. It has a range of media including 41 primary metropolitan weekly publications, which reach 4 million readers with business community related news, and Bizjournals, the online version of those newspapers. It also controls the Street & Smith's Sports Group, which publishes motorsports periodicals, as well as SportsBusiness Journal, Sports Business Daily, and five sports annuals. The company 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.

In October 2006, the company acquired The Sporting News.

[edit] Newspapers

title metro area founded website notes
Atlanta Business Chronicle Atlanta, Georgia atlanta
Austin Business Journal Austin, Texas austin
Baltimore Business Journal Baltimore, Maryland baltimore
Birmingham Business Journal Birmingham, Alabama birmingham
Boston Business Journal Boston, Massachusetts boston
Buffalo Business Journal Buffalo, New York buffalo
Charlotte Business Journal Charlotte, North Carolina charlotte
Cincinnati Business Journal Cincinnati, Ohio cincinnati
Columbus Business First Columbus, Ohio columbus
Dallas Business Journal Dallas, Texas 1977 dallas
Dayton Business Journal Dayton, Ohio dayton
Denver Business Journal Denver, Colorado denver
EastBay Business Journal Oakland, California eastbay
Triad Business Journal Greensboro, North Carolina triad
Pacific Business Journal Honolulu, Hawaii pacific
started by entrepreneur George Mason and former Honolulu Star-Bulletin editor John Ramsey. In 1983 Mason sold the newspaper to ACBJ, though he continued to write a regular column for more than a decade after that.[1]
Houston Business Journal Houston, Texas houston
Along with several other corporate sponsors, it coordinates the FastTech 50 Competition each year.
Jacksonville Business Journal Jacksonville, Florida jacksonville
Kansas City Business Journal Kansas City, Missouri kansascity
Business First of Louiville Louisville, Kentucky 1984 louisville
Memphis Business Journal Memphis, Tennessee 1979-05-04 memphis
founded by Ward Archer as Mid-South Business, one of the first local business papers published in the United States.[citation needed]
Milwaukee Business Journal Milwaukee, Wisconsin milwaukee
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal Twin Cities twincities
Nashville Business Journal Nashville, Tennessee nashville
Orlando Business Journal Orlando, Florida orlando
Philadelphia Business Journal Philadelphia, Pennsylvania philadelphia
Phoenix Business Journal Phoenix, Arizona phoenix
Pittsburgh Business Journal Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania pittsburgh
Portland Business Journal Portland, Oregon portland
Triangle Business Journal Raleigh, North Carolina triangle
Sacramento Business Journal Sacramento, California sacramento
St. Louis Business Journal St. Louis, Missouri stlouis
San Antonio Business Journal San Antonio, Texas sanantonio
San Francisco Business Journal San Francisco, California sanfrancisco
San Jose Business Journal San Jose, California sanjose
Seattle Business Journal Seattle, Washington seattle
South Florida Business Journal Miami, Florida southflorida
Tampa Bay Business Journal Tampa Bay, Florida 1981 tampabay
founded as Tampa Bay Business, renamed in the late 1990s as The Business Journal Serving Tampa Bay
Washington, DC Business Journal Washington, D.C. washington
Wichita Business Journal Wichita, Kansas wichita

[edit] Bizjournals

Bizjournals is the online media division of American City Business Journals which operates websites 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 contains local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, along with an archive that contains more than 750,000 business news articles published since 1996.

[edit] Publications

According to the Columbia Journalism Review, it owns the following publications (as of 2003):

[edit] Cable television

[edit] Internet

  • Advance Internet
  • CondeNet

[edit] Other

  • Religion News Service
  • Newhouse News Service

[edit] Former and Defunct Divisions

[edit] References

  1. ^ Small Business News | April 2001 | Page 2

[edit] External links

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