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, SportsBusiness Daily, and five sports annuals; as well as The Sporting News and its radio subsidiary, Sporting News Radio. 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 2009, ACBJ took over management of Portfolio.com, a website formerly associated with the now-defunct Condé Nast Portfolio.[2]
Mike Russell founded American City Business Journals. Ray Shaw, the company's chairman from 1989 until his 2009 death, bought a controlling interest along with a partner in 1989, selling to Advance Publications in 1995. It was Russell who suggested Shaw buy the entire company rather than just a few journals. Under Shaw's leadership, the company moved from Kansas City, Missouri to Charlotte and greatly increased the number of its publications.[3]
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| title | metro area | founded | website | notes |
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| Albany Business Review | Albany, New York | albany | ||
| 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 First | Buffalo, New York | buffalo | ||
| Charlotte Business Journal | Charlotte, North Carolina | charlotte | ||
| Cincinnati Business Courier | Cincinnati, Ohio | 1984[4] | 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 | ||
| East Bay Business Journal | Oakland, California | eastbay |
Merged with the San Francisco Business Times in 2008.</ref>
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| Triad Business Journal | Greensboro, North Carolina | triad | ||
| Pacific Business News | 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.[5]
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| Houston Business Journal | Houston, Texas | houston |
Along with several other corporate sponsors, it coordinates the FastTech 50 Competition each year.
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| Jacksonville Business Journal | Jacksonville, Florida | jacksonville | ||
| Kansas City Business Journal | Kansas City, Missouri | 1982 | kansascity |
Co-founded by Michael K. Russell and William Worley in August 1982.[6]
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| Business First of Louisville | 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.
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| 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 Times | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | pittsburgh | ||
| Portland Business Journal | Portland, Oregon | portland | ||
| Puget Sound Business Journal | Seattle, Washington | seattle | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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
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| Washington Business Journal | Washington, D.C. | washington | ||
| Wichita Business Journal | Wichita, Kansas | wichita |
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. bizjournals' sites have more than four million unique visitors each month.
bizjournals also operates Bizapace.com, a Web site devoted to online commercial real estate listings across the U.S.
The Business Journal's Forty Under 40 is an annual list compiled and published by the Business Journal Newspapers since 1992.[7] The purpose is to list the 40 most successful entrepreneurs under the age of 40. The 40 are usually nominated from within individual areas in range of the bizjournal's publication. Factors that are taken into account include income, company growth in the previous year, and magazine covers.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
A Subscription to a Business Journal includes a yearly Book of Lists. The Book of Lists gives you essential information on the leading buyers, businesses and employers in over 60 of the U.S.'s most dynamic markets; a snapshot of local economies. You can receive lists of companies from around the country, sorted by industry. The Book of lists also includes names of key decision makers, along with their titles and complete contact information
Available lists include:[14]