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BUSINESS JOURNALS
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American City BUSINESS JOURNALS
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American City BUSINESS JOURNALS
WHO WE ARE
Chairman’s Welcome
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ACBJ Today
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Business Journals
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bizjournals.com
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Business Leads
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Circulation Fulﬁllment
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NASCAR Scene
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NASCAR Illustrated
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SceneDaily.com
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Inside Lacrosse
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Bizbooks
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Sporting News
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SportsBusiness Journal/Daily
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Internships
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In the Community
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Hemmings Motor News
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City Business Journals Network
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History
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Beneﬁts Overview
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Directory of Publications
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Awards
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OUR PEOPLE
Wedge Abels
Crystal Edmonson
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Scott Greig
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Italo Jimenez
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Abe Madkour
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Sandy Matsumoto
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Lucy May
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Huntley Paton
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Jim Menneto
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Michael Stanaland
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Joanna Wessman
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Ryan Whittington
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Inside
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Chairman’s welcome
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By RAY SHAW
Chairman, American City Business Journals
Welcome to this overview of American
City Business Journals. Whether you’re
considering employment at American City,
are a reader or advertiser, or already work
at ACBJ, I believe you’ll find this report
valuable and informative.
Our goal in producing this publication
was to share with you who we are and what
we stand for. These qualities are what make
American City a very successful business
and an outstanding place to build a career.
Welcome to
ACBJ
We are a young company, made up of
about 2,100 talented, committed people.
Founded a quarter of a century ago,
American City has publications or offices
in cities nationwide stretching from New
York to Honolulu.
American City is the nation’s leading
publisher of metropolitan business
journals, owning papers in 41 U.S. cities.
It is also a major sports publisher through
its ownership of Sporting News, the Street
& Smiths Sports Group and Inside Lacrosse
magazine. In addition, ACBJ has a signifi-
cant online presence through nearly 50 web
sites, which are consistently ranked among
the nation’s best by Forbes magazine and
others.
I’ve had the pleasure of serving
American City for 19 years. The Shaw
family bought control of ACBJ following
my 1989 retirement from Dow Jones & Co.
and the Wall Street Journal, where I spent 30
rewarding years, the last 10 as President and
Chief Operating Officer.
I was attracted to American City for the
same reasons most others are. ACBJ was and
is an exciting, entrepreneurial company that
brings out the best in its people. We insist
on teamwork and the highest standards
of honesty and integrity in all that we do.
We prize diversity. We require fair play at
all times in dealing with those we serve
and those we work with. As a result, ACBJ
is composed of extraordinarily talented
people who are committed to producing
outstanding publications.
In the following pages, you will meet a
few of the talented people who make up
our company. They will tell you what they
do and why they have chosen to make
American City their corporate home. I tell
you with pride that they are representative
of the high-quality individuals who make
up our company and are responsible for
its success.
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• ACBJ owns 41 business journals with
515,000 paid subscribers and 3 million
readers.
• Business Journal Subscribers spend an
average of 50 minutes each week reading
the paper, and 72 percent of them read
every issue.
• 77 percent of Business Journal subscribers
have graduated from college, and 40
percent have a graduate degree.
• Their average income is $241,000 and their
average net worth is nearly $2 million.
• Business Journal Subscribers’ companies
employ an average of 383 people and are
growing at an average of 15.1 percent per
year.
• bizjournals, ACBJ’s internet division,
reports more than 6 million unique visitors
each month.
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ACBJ: Best in local business news coast to coast
American City Business Journals is the
largest publisher of metropolitan business
newsweeklies in the United States, with 41
papers across the country reaching more
than 500,000 subscribers each week. ACBJ
also owns publications that cater to motorsports readers, sports readers and collector
car enthusiasts.
ACBJ today
From Sporting News, which has documented some of the most memorable sports
moments since 1886, to Hemmings Motor
News, which has enhanced the car-collecting
enthusiast’s experience since its ﬁrst issue
was published in 1954, ACBJ’s millions of
weekly readers are highly engaged in their
industries and hobbies. ACBJ’s NASCAR Scene
is the nation’s largest weekly publication
devoted exclusively to NASCAR and its
top three touring series.
More than 700 journalists
and nearly 450 advertising
professionals work for ACBJ’s
newspapers, magazines and
Web sites. A half-million business and sports news e-mails
are sent out daily from ACBJ.
ACBJ’s Chairman and Chief Executive Ofﬁcer is Ray Shaw. Mr. Shaw spent 30
years with Dow Jones & Co. and The Wall
Street Journal, the last 10 years as President
and Chief Operating Ofﬁcer. During his tenure
as president, the company’s annual revenues
tripled to $1.7 billion, and operations were
extended worldwide. Following his retirement
from Dow Jones, Mr. Shaw’s Shaw Publishing Co. acquired control of ACBJ, which then
owned 21 newspapers.
Advance Publications acquired ACBJ in
1995. Privately held Advance owns Condé
Nast Publications, Parade Publications and the
Golf Digest Cos. Condé Nast publishes some
of America’s best-known consumer magazines – including Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New
Yorker, Architectural Digest and Modern Bride.
Advance also owns more than 20 daily newspapers, including the Cleveland Plain-Dealer,
the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Portland
Oregonian and New Jersey’s Star-Ledger.
Engaged users
ACBJ’s readers and Web site users are
engaged in their businesses and communities. Millions of businesspeople use business
journals to develop sales leads, keep tabs on
breaking news and research top companies,
executives and organizations in their local
communities through each business journals’
annual Book of Lists.
Through bizjournals.com, ACBJ is working to build stronger business communities
through a complete online company and
executive database and providing online
events calendars that allow local business
professionals and executives to network. In
addition, a full and complete archive
of business journal stories from
1996 to the present is now
available to subscribers.
In 2008, the business journals are expected to host 465
events with 167,000 attendees.
ACBJ captures feedback from
users as well — bizjournals.com
houses thousands of user-feedback
responses on various community topics
through its pulse survey system.
Sporting News offers fantasy sports leagues
and Sporting News Radio. Both Sporting
News and NASCAR Scene offer user feedback
areas on their Web sites and blogs.
Engaged Hemmings Motor News readers
ﬂock to Hemmings’ parking lot each summer
to attend Thursday night cruise-ins, where
hopefuls vie for trophies to add to the collections of prizes earned for their award-winning
vehicles.
And in Fall 2007, Mr. Shaw, announced
creation of the company’s New Media division
— a concrete effort to expand the company’s
technology endeavors.
ACBJ’s
more than
2,000 employees
have an average
tenure of
6 years.
Engaged employees
ACBJ’s nearly 2,100 employees have an
average tenure of 6 years, and a number
have been with the company for decades.
They bring to their jobs the same kind of
entrepreneurial spirit that the publications
and Web sites encourage in their readers
and users.
ACBJ employees also are actively engaged
in the communities in which they work and
live. Company employees volunteer both
individually and in workplace teams for a
wide variety of community projects. ACBJ’s
business publications also host philanthropy
events throughout the country to recognize
charitable efforts in their cities.
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American City Business Journals’
Corporate Mission Statement
American City Business Journals publishes
news and information that is abundantly useful to
the communities we serve.
The company’s foremost objective is to give
our readers and advertisers quality print and
online publications, as well as other services
that are speciﬁcally tailored to their interests
and needs. In this pursuit, our efforts must focus
upon quality journalism, innovative marketing,
exemplary customer service and an unquestioned
commitment to the highest standards of professional and corporate ethics.
American City Business Journals is enriched
by the continuing contributions of exceptionally
talented employees who provide the foundation
upon which our quest for quality is built. The
company shall always recognize that our skilled
and dedicated employees are the company’s
greatest strength.
Successful attainment of our corporate mission enables us to serve American City Business
Journal readers, advertisers and employees in
a manner consistent with that of the country’s
most revered and respected publishing companies. By achieving our ﬁnancial objectives, we
will be able to serve the public with improved
products and more innovative services.
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Huntley Paton joined the San Francisco
Business Times in 1986, when both were just
getting started in journalism: The paper was a
start-up and Paton was a cub reporter.
Since then, he’s crisscrossed the country
working for American City Business Journals
in Cincinnati, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh,
Charlotte and Dallas as a reporter, managing editor, editor and publisher. He recently
joined bizjournals, ACBJ’s online media division, as executive editor.
“ACBJ fed my nomadic instincts,” he said.
“I’ve lived east, west, north and south, seen
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“I’ve lived
east, west, north and
south … covered all
kinds of beats – and
I didn’t have to leave
the company to
do it.”
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all kinds of cities and covered all kinds of
beats – and I didn’t have to leave the company to do it.
“From the ﬁrst day I joined the company, I
have been given astounding opportunities to
learn and earn,” he added.
His newest position, which he accepted
after serving as the Dallas publisher for nearly
a dozen years, is a good example, he said.
“It’s an enormous challenge and a real
thrill,” he said. “To have the opportunity to go
back and really focus on the content side is a
privilege. I have a lot of passion for that part
of the business.”
One of Paton’s greatest sources of satisfaction comes from knowing “that we really can
help our readers and customers become
more successful.”
“We matter,” he said. “Visit any ACBJ
market and you’ll see a feisty, smart newspaper that is making a difference – helping
entrepreneurs compete, providing a voice for
the business community, connecting business
people to one another. If you need more than
just a job to get you out of bed in the morning, ACBJ is a good place to work.”
ACBJ has changed dramatically in the 22
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years since Paton ﬁled his ﬁrst story, he said,
and bizjournals’ rapid growth demonstrates
its commitment to its readers.
“ACBJ is very committed to being an
important media company for the long term,”
he said. “We are ﬁrst and foremost in the
information business, and we have to get the
news to our customers in any way they want
to receive it.”
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ACBJ Gives Entrepreneurs An Edge
American City Business Journals offers
the best in local business news from coast to
coast.
ACBJ’s 41 business newspapers stretch
from Washington, D.C., to Honolulu, and
from Austin, TX., to Albany, N.Y.
ACBJ’s strategy is simple: To provide the
most comprehensive, exclusive coverage
of local business in each market it serves.
To do this, ACBJ is committed to top-quality
journalism, unexcelled service to readers
and advertisers, and active involvement in the
local business community.
That strategy is successful. Business journals give readers and advertisers high-quality
publications and services that are speciﬁcally
tailored to their needs and interests.
As a result, ACBJ journalists earn scores of
awards from their professional peers each
year. And, ACBJ papers boast an average
renewal rate of more than 80 percent, unparalleled in the newspaper industry.
Business journals feature local people and
decision makers who are leaders in their
business communities. They report on local
and national issues that affect subscribers’
businesses and assist them in growing their
companies. Printed each Friday, business
journals include topical listings and business
leads for new business licenses, building
permits, real estate transactions and court
judgments. A subscription to a business
journal includes a yearly Book of Lists.
Each afternoon, more than 450,000 business newsletters go out to business journal
e-mail subscribers. Each newsletter is ﬁlled
with business news that broke that day.
Keeping an eye on the nation’s capital,
ACBJ’s Washington bureau chief provides
information on a wide variety of topics that
affect small businesses.
Every business journal features a special
report, an in-depth look at a speciﬁc industry
or topic. Various special publications are
also released throughout the year — covering topics such as Best Places to Work,
Green Business, Growing Your Business and
Philanthropy.
ACBJ also owns The Buffalo Law Journal
and Mass High Tech: The Journal of New
England Technology.
Founded in 1929, the Law Journal is a
twice-weekly newspaper covering legal,
ﬁnancial, real estate and general news. MHT
is published weekly and proﬁles businesses,
colleges, executives and high-tech trends in
Boston and the surrounding areas.
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Papers Power bizjournals’ Rapid Growth
bizjournals is the online media division of
American City Business Journals. It operates
the Web sites for each of the company's
41 print business journals and a separate
online-only site with local business news and
information for Los Angeles.
bizjournals’ 3.2 million registered
bizjournals’
users rely on the site for updated
news and information on their
archives contains news updates from every
local commuinities.
1.25 million business bizjournals market,
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around the nation and
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American City’s print editions; industrythe country.
speciﬁc news from more than 40 industries;
In early 2008, bizjournals
advice columns; and a full menu of tools to
launched Greenbizjournal, a site devoted to
help business owners and operators manage
deals, people and innovations that make the
their businesses more successfully.
green industry the phenomenon of our age.
bizjournals’ archives contains 1.25 million
Greenbizjournal provides a forum for readers
business news articles published since 1996.
to comment and interact with one another,
bizjournals’ sites welcome more than 6
alerts site visitors of green events or other
million unique visitors every month.
happenings that may beneﬁt their businesses
E-mail offerings include daily local business
and tracks venture capital and other ﬁnancing
mechanisms for green initiatives.
Another bizjournals property, Bizwomen,
is a growing and emerging online community
for women business executives and entrepreneurs to connect, support, learn and grow.
Bizwomen allows professionals to explore
ideas with women across the country or in
their neighborhoods to help grow business.
bizjournals also operates Bizspace.com, a
Web site devoted to online commercial real
estate listings across the U.S. Bizspace serves
all ACBJ markets and Los Angeles.
In addition, bizjournals offers local networking events and business events, local online business directories, downloadable sales
leads and strategic-partnership opportunities.
Site visitors also can subscribe to any
business journal, order a Book of Lists from
more than 60 markets and obtain advertising information for all of ACBJ’s newspapers.
Subscribers to print editions of American
City’s newspapers may also download a PDF
e-dition of that week’s complete business
journal every Friday morning.
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After a decade at daily newspapers,
reporter Lucy May wanted to take control of
her work.
“One of the things I always wanted to do
was big projects,” she said. “I had big ideas,
but I was always getting
pulled off to do the
ﬁll-in stuff that’s
necessary at a
daily.”
When
May left the
Cincinnati
Enquirer
to join the
Cincinnati Business
Courier in 2000,
she was ﬁnally able
to focus on enterprise
stories, which have won her a number of
prestigious journalism awards.
“Here I get to write stories that matter to
me, week in and week out,” said May, who
covers urban development, the non-proﬁt
community and woman- and minority-owned
businesses.
“I write about substantive, meaningful
topics. I never have to worry about covering
the local festivals or dog parades or being
sent out to interview the family members of a
murder victim.
“I feel like I know our readers and what
they want and expect,” she added. “And I am
challenged to be a better reporter so I get
the good stories before the local dailies even
know the news has happened.”
May’s knowledge of Cincinnati combined
with her wealth of sources allows her to continue scooping competitors while working
a reduced schedule. She works four days a
week giving her more time to spend with her
daughters, Maddy, 11, and Katy, 6.
“The schedule gives me extra time with my
girls, and I feel very fortunate that the Courier
has been so supportive in my efforts to balance work and family,” she said.
A graduate of Northwestern University’s
“I feel very
fortunate that the
Courier has been so
supportive in my efforts
to balance work
and family.”
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Medill School of Journalism, May worked at
South Carolina’s Greenville News, Kentucky’s
Lexington Herald Leader and Ohio’s Dayton
Daily News, as well as the Enquirer before
joining the Business Courier.
“I have friends at the local daily who
thought I was leaving that paper and going
to work for the Business Courier because I
wanted to kick back, work less and spend
more time with my children. On the contrary,
I’m working harder than ever, and I’m more
proud of the work I’ve done here than I am
of any of the stories I wrote at the big daily in
town,” she said. “And, I have the kind of access to my editors and their decision-making
process that allows me to know where I stand
and how I’m doing.”
May not only gets feedback from her editors, she’s also heard from ACBJ Chairman
Ray Shaw.
“This is the ﬁrst place I’ve ever worked
where I actually got an e-mail from the
chairman of the company,” she said. “I was
stunned. It’s great to work for someone who
so obviously cares about news and the quality
of our papers.”
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Growing up, Ryan Whittington was the kind
of kid, “who took the ﬂashlight apart to see
how it works.”
“I love to ﬁgure things out,” said the General Manager of bizjournals, the online media
division of American City Business Journals.
Today he spends his time ﬁguring out who
is visiting bizjournals, how they are spending their time, the content and services they
are using and which online advertisements
resonate with them.
A native North Carolinian and graduate of
Catawba College, Whittington joined American City in 1999 when he went to work for
The SportsBusiness Daily, part of the Street
& Smith’s Sports Group. There he helped
launch both the Daily’s
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bizjournals
and SportsBusiness Journal’s Web sites.
In 2001, Whittington moved to bizjournals
to join its advertising team because he “loved
being part of the fast-paced atmosphere of
online advertising.”
“I had a passion for the Internet, but knew
I wasn’t cut out to be a programmer,”
he said.
Working side by side with the sales team,
he quickly learned that online advertisers
manage and measure their campaigns weekly,
and even daily, emphasizing the importance
of building strong rapport with clients.
“Data is critical because strategic decisions
are based on that,” he said. “It needs to be
accurate and speciﬁc, and it’s important that
you’re not just looking at numbers, but offering solutions.”
Whittington now supervises 11 staff
members and works as a liaison between bizjournals’ sales, editorial
and tech teams, analyzing usage
data and creating forecasts,
“making sure the business runs
as smoothly as possible,” he
said.
As bizjournals continues to
grow, the challenges keep coming
and Whittington relishes them.
“This is such a new business that
opportunities you don’t see right now could
appear in three years,” he said.
He also enjoys bizjournals’ collegiality, saying “the people I work with every single day,”
are his favorite part of his job.
“They’re a whole lot smarter than I am,”
he said, with a laugh. “I hope I pick up a little
of that, even by osmosis.”
ACBJ has a “family feel,” he added.
“There are a lot of people here who have
been here a very long time,” he said. “That’s
important. This company does a good job of
taking care of its people.”
In his spare time, Whittington enjoys
spending time with his wife, Julie, and baby
daughter, Ella. He also is coach of the Street &
Smith’s softball team, which won the Charlotte
media league regular season title in 2007 and
post-season tournament in 2006.
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“This company
does a good job of
taking care of its
people.”
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Corporate Circ Center Delivers Nationwide
When a subscription is sold to one of ACBJ’s
publications, that’s just the start of a process
that ensures readers receive the best in local
business news each week.
Fulﬁllment for all 41 ACBJ business
journals and ﬁve sports titles takes place at
the company’s National Circulation Fulﬁllment
Center in Charlotte. More than 30 full-time
and part-time staff members work at the
Fulﬁllment Center.
The circulation fulﬁllment operation was
launched in the summer of 2002, using a combination of automated letter-opening machines
and front-end scanning to process orders and
payments. The scanning software reads the
dollar amount from a check, compares the
amount with the total printed on an invoice or
renewal notice and, if the ﬁgures agree, sends
the transaction information directly to the
circulation database called MultiPub without its
being touched by human hands.
While the data from the scanned images
ﬂows into the MultiPub database, the images
themselves are archived for research purposes
and Audit Bureau of Circulation and U.S. Postal
Service Audit veriﬁcation, reducing the need to
recall paper copies from the warehouse.
The last stop is the electronic check ﬁle
which upon conﬁrmation that check payment
input equals output, is sent at the end of the
day to the ACBJ account at Bank of America for
deposit.
Mailing labels for all ACBJ titles are also
produced in Charlotte. Renewal notices,
invoices and trial campaign letters originate at
the fulﬁllment center and are sent to an outside
vendor with the capacity to produce promotional materials that can be read by scanning
equipment.
National Call Center
ACBJ’s National Call Center handles outgoing
sales calls for Business Journals renewals and
trial conversions as well as incoming customer
service calls for the Street and Smith’s Motorsports titles. In 2006 the Call Center upgraded
to an automated dialer that displays all of a
subscriber’s, or potential subscriber’s, critical
information for the sales people to view while
they are on the call.
The Call Center handles renewals for 36
markets and trial conversions for 22 markets
on an ongoing basis – though nearly every
market uses the Call Center at some point
during the year. The sales agents work
through more than 450 lists each week,
making more than 1 million calls per year.
The Call Center plays a vital role in ACBJ’s
renewal efforts with renewals totaling nearly
50,000 annually — 20 percent of all renewing subscribers. In addition, more than 4,000
new subscribers are added each year by the
Call Center. On average, more than 50 percent of all sales (new and renewal) are paid
in advance and 20 percent of renewals are
multi-year. Three-quarters of all sales are sold
at full price with the remainder using limited
discounts for prepayment and multi-market
buys.
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ACBL Supplies Journals’ Record Data
American City Business Leads is responsible
for gathering the public records that business journals publish in their weekly “For the
Record” and “Business Leads” sections.
With the exception of Buffalo Business First
— which receives its data from the Buffalo
Law Journal, another ACBJ publication —
ACBL services all ACBJ business publications
and collects public records that fall under:
• bankruptcies
• court judgments
• federal and state tax liens
• lawsuits
• building permits
• real estate transactions
• new businesses (e.g., new corporations, new occupational licenses)
• mortgages
• foreclosures
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ACBL has its headquarters in Charlotte,
N.C., but the real work is done in markets
across the country. Approximately 85 contractors and vendors collect, process, edit and
proofread thousands of lines of data every
week. In addition, ACBL receives some 100
data downloads from various government
ofﬁces around the country that are then sorted
and sieved through its system automatically.
ACBL collects approximately 2.5 million
records each year from 420 government jurisdictions and stores 13.2 million data records
in its warehouse.
All ACBJ reporters and editors have access
to ACBL’s data as it arrives — and when it is
archived. ACBJ reporters and editors may also
request additional public-records searches
from ACBL when they need more information
for their stories.
Apart from its primary purpose of providing records for ACBJ’s business publications,
ACBL also re-sells some kinds of data to nonACBJ entities:
• New business and new home
owner data is sold to individual
businesses by Biz Books, another
ACBJ afﬁliate.
• New business and new home
owner data is brokered through
The Lake Group, a business
strategy ﬁrm.
• Lawsuits, tax liens and judgments
are sold nationally to Dun &
Bradstreet.
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Broadcast journalists are often nomads
who move from market to market in search
of bigger stations and bigger stories.
Crystal Edmonson says working as the
Atlanta Business Chronicle’s broadcast editor
has allowed her to partner with a variety of
news operations without having to leave her
home town.
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“When”
someone cares
about the people who
work for and with
them that means
“a lot.”
cover those topics in depth,
she said, providing insight and
analysis to the stations’ sophisticated
“There have always been new opportunities here for me,” she said. “It’s been great to
see Atlanta grow, to volunteer and to contribute to the community and build relationships.
I’ve had all the beneﬁts of the broadcast
business without moving.”
A graduate of Emory University with a
master’s degree from Northwestern University,
Edmonson started at the Chronicle in 1998.
Her ﬁrst assignments were working on
The Atlanta Business Chronicle Report and
Atlanta Now, which aired on a local cable
television station. She also provided features
for Chronicle Proﬁles, a cable show hosted by
Chronicle Publisher Ed Baker and ﬁlled in on
a radio show on a local talk station.
In 2003, the paper formed a partnership
with the local public radio station, WABE.
Edmonson now provides daily business news
reports for that station, as well as for a sports
talk station and jazz station. In addition, she
serves as a liaison to Atlanta’s NBC afﬁliate
which airs Chronicle stories each week,
and frequently emcees the paper’s business
events.
Preparing packages for the PBS station is
particularly fulﬁlling, she said, “Because I can
exercise those reporter muscles.”
A series on investment fraud and another
on real estate foreclosures allowed her to
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listeners.
Working for the Chronicle, she said, is an
asset in reporting radio stories.
“The reputation of the Chronicle is such
that people receive me warmly because they
know the story will be reported accurately
and with integrity,” she said. “You don’t have
to prove yourself before you even start the
interview.”
She also appreciates ACBJ’s inclusive,
entrepreneurial culture, which supports
employee initiative.
An example, she said, is the company’s
Minority Internship Program. Edmonson is
chairman of the committee that oversees the
program, now in its third year. Chairman Ray
Shaw was quick to approve the program and
consistently supportive, she said.
“It’s great being able to have that kind of
access to the chairman of the company and
have the freedom to build something year
after year,” she said. “When someone cares
about the people who work for and with
them that means a lot.”
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Covering the Racing Life – on the track and off
NASCAR SCENE
NASCAR Scene has been the authority on
NASCAR racing since the weekly publication
was launched in 1977 as
Grand National Scene.
Though it’s ofﬁcially
licensed to use the NASCAR
name, the print publication
and its online SceneDaily.com
service are independent products prepared by a staff now
operating as a unit of the Street
& Smith’s Sports Group.
Over more than three
decades, NASCAR Scene has
become the nation’s largest
weekly publication devoted exclusively to
NASCAR’s top three touring series.
Each week, Scene takes readers inside the
NASCAR garage and behind the scenes, providing complete coverage of the Nextel Cup,
Nationwide and Craftsman Truck series.
Each week, Scene’s staff of award-winning
NASCAR ILLUSTRATED
NASCAR is more than a sport… it’s a
lifestyle. And for more than 25 years, NASCAR
Illustrated has celebrated that
lifestyle by taking race fans
beyond the track and into the
lives, homes and hobbies of
NASCAR’s biggest stars.
Each monthly issue of Illustrated provides an up-close
and personal look at the people
who make NASCAR’s top racing
series’ the most exciting and
popular form of racing in the
United States. Readers have
come to expect everything from
proﬁles of their favorite drivers, crew chiefs
and NASCAR legends, to home tours and
behind-the-scenes breakdowns of NASCAR’s
most intricate and intriguing components in
writers and photographers take readers to the
race, with in-depth coverage and a complete
statistical package, dozens of action photos
and information about every driver. Weekly
cover stories and features
also provide a unique look
at the people who live their
lives in the fast lane.
In addition, Scene staffers
keep readers up to date on
all the latest developments
on and off the track through
the SceneDaily.com Web site
and its associated e-mail
newsletters.
Since 2002, Scene’s
writers and photographers
have captured more than 70 prizes from
the National Motorsports Press Association, the North Carolina Press Association
and the Miller Lite Motorsports Journalism
Awards of Excellence program.
NASCAR Scene is a publication of the Street
& Smith’s Sports Group.
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the “Anatomy of …” department.
The magazine is also a showcase for
award-winning photography that puts fans
in the middle of the action at the track and
illustrates the NASCAR lifestyle
off the track. In 2004, NASCAR
Illustrated captured the prestigious photojournalism prize
in the Miller Lite Motorsports
Journalism Awards of Excellence program. In addition,
Illustrated writers and photographers have been honored
by the National Motorsports
Press Association on six other
occasions since 2002.
While ofﬁcially licensed to
carry the NASCAR name, NASCAR Illustrated
and its weekly sister publication, NASCAR
Scene, are independent operations of the
Street & Smith’s Sports Group.
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SCENEDAILY.COM
SceneDaily.com, the online service of
NASCAR Scene, offers breaking news, features
and commentary from Scene’s team of awardwinning reporters, editors and photographers,
as well as current stories and archives from
the sport’s foremost weekly publication.
In addition to operating the Web site,
www.scenedaily.com, which offers the latest
race coverage seven days a week about NASCAR’s Nextel Cup, Nationwide and Craftsman
Truck series’,
SceneDaily’s
staff also sends
out a free daily
e-mail newsletter covering the
sport’s news of
the day. During
the Cup racing season, the staff also prepares special pre- and post-race newsletters
with exclusive content about each week’s
event and the leading drivers and teams.
SceneDaily.com also represents the publication’s new media effort, including audio
commentaries and a number of interactive
features. Fans take part in weekly polls and
are encouraged to comment on staff-written
blogs on the Web site, which also carries
some of the overﬂow letters that don’t make
it into the highly popular letters section of
each weekly print edition.
The Web site captured the North Carolina
Press Association’s ﬁrst-place award for general excellence for web sites for community
newspapers in 2006.
SceneDaily.com is prepared by the reporters and editors of the NASCAR Scene staff,
which is part of the Street & Smith’s Sports
Group. They work from the American City
Business Journals headquarters in Charlotte,
N.C. — near the hub of the sport. The ofﬁce is
fewer than two blocks from the site of the future NASCAR Hall of Fame, which is expected
to open in late 2009 or early 2010.
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When Scott Greig graduated from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
with a journalism degree in 1987, he had
two job offers: one was from Charlotte’s daily
newspaper; the other was from The Leader,
a community weekly then owned by ACBJ
Chairman Ray Shaw.
Greig chose The Leader, and has worked
for publications run by the Shaw family ever
since.
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motorsports group in 1997. In his current
position, Greig oversees production for NASCAR Scene and NASCAR Illustrated and their
afﬁliated Web sites.
The boom in racing’s popularity has been
a motivator for the motorsports publications’
staffs, he said.
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“It is very much a big business, but it has
managed to retain a small, family-owned
business feel,” he said. “There is a lot of
top-to-bottom employee interaction without
positions or titles getting in the way.”
Part of the company’s attraction, he said, is the value it
places on its employees.
“You will never ﬁnd a
more loyal company to
work for,” he said.
Greig — whose assignments have ranged from
working up ads and
producing ACBJ’s newsletter to creating a Web
site and redesigning
an entire publication
“It is very much
a big business, but it
has managed to retain
a small, family-owned
business feel.”
Scott Greig
“I chose The Leader because I really
hated the feel of the big, cold, impersonal
newsroom,” he said. “And, I loved the idea of
being able to do a lot of different things.”
During his 18 years with ACBJ, Greig has
held a number of positions.
After starting as a reporter, Greig became
The Leader’s production manager. In 1994,
after the paper was sold, he joined ACBJ’s
motorsports division. There he worked
as production manager for several of the
group’s racing publications, before being
named production manager of the entire
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PRODUCTION MANAGER
NASCAR SCENE and NASCAR ILLUSTRATED
“Racing fans are very loyal, and they take
the sport very seriously,” he said. “We take a
lot of pride in putting out a ﬁrst-rate publication every week because people expect it
every week.”
Like racing, ACBJ has grown exponentially
during the past decade, but Greig said it still
has its small company sensibilities.
— values the wide variety of projects.
The best thing about working for ACBJ, he
said, is “the high priority that the company
places on employee development, both
through continuing education and seminars,
and the opportunities to work on projects
for a number of different divisions of the
company.”
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Inside Lacrosse
paces sports’ growth
Inside Lacrosse is the premier source
of information about lacrosse — the fastest-growing participant sport in the United
States — helping to deﬁne the cutting
edge of the sport's rapid growth.
Inside Lacrosse includes Inside
Lacrosse magazine, Face-Off Yearbook,
InsideLacrosse.com, LacrosseForums.
com and several other products and services unique to the sport. Inside Lacrosse
is also the online lacrosse partner of
ESPN.com.
INSIDE LACROSSE
Baltimore-based Inside Lacrosse magazine is published 11 times a year. Inside
Lacrosse TV, which airs on ESPN2, covers
high school, college and professional
lacrosse, providing instruction, a look
behind the scenes and player features.
Face-Off College Yearbook is an annual
comprehensive review of the upcoming
college men's
lacrosse season.
Robert
Carpenter,
publisher of
Inside Lacrosse,
founded the
business in
the late 1990s,
ﬁrst running
the publication
out of a spare
bedroom in his Towson, MD, home. The
premiere issue was made up of 16 blackand-white pages and consisted mostly of
box scores and stats. Today, the publication is published in a glossy, full-color
format. Its Web site welcomes 450,000
unique users each spring and holds them
through lacrosse season.
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SN: A Legacy of Excellence
SPORTING NEWS
Sporting News is American City Business Journal’s oldest publication. Added to
the ACBJ family in October 2006, Sporting
News is the go-to source for die-hard fans of
Major League Baseball, the National Football
League, the National Hockey
League, the National Basketball Association, NASCAR and
NCAA basketball and football.
While its compelling graphics and indepth coverage of
all-things-sports is, of course,
essential to its readers, Sporting News provides its strongest
value is in nitty-gritty sports
statistics and analysis — and
in spotting trends before any
other publication.
Sporting News’ properties include its
magazine, online and book publishing units,
and Sporting News Radio Network.
Alfred Henry Spink and his brothers
published the ﬁrst issue of Sporting News in
St. Louis on March 17, 1886. A single copy
sold for 5 cents. The Spink brothers were
fully involved in the sporting and journalism
subculture of St. Louis and were instrumental in organizing St. Louis’ ﬁrst professional
baseball team, the Browns, in 1875.
Sporting News primarily covered baseball
until 1942. That year, it began to include
football, hockey and college basketball.
In 1991, Sporting News underwent a
major facelift. The editorial
focus was narrowed to the
“Big Six”: baseball, professional and college football,
professional and college
basketball and hockey.
Sporting News began cyberpublishing in 1996. Its site
at America Online, established then,
was voted one of AOL’s
“Best New Areas” for that
year. In January 1997,
Sporting News debuted its own Web site at
http://www.sportingnews.com/.
Sporting News Fantasy Games and Sporting News Radio debuted in 1999. NASCAR
coverage was added to Sporting News’ roster
of topics in 2001.
Since ACBJ bought Sporting News, it has
moved its operations to Charlotte.
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Book of Lists BizBooks’ Best Seller
Biz Books Inc. is a retail division of
American City Business Journals that began
operations in 1992.
From its ofﬁces at ACBJ’s headquarters in
Charlotte, N.C., Biz Books
began selling business
books — written by some
of the country’s most notable business strategists — through ACBJ’s
business publications.
The division has grown over the years. Today, in addition to the offerings of prominent
business authors, Biz Books sells the annual
Book of Lists for all of ACBJ’s 41 business
journals and 15 non-ACBJ business jour-
nals. Along with selling subscriptions for 56
business publications (which include a free
Book of Lists), Biz Books produces, sells
and provides support for ACBJ’s electronic
Book of List products.
Biz Books also processes the orders for business
event calendar listings
posted on bizjournals.com and event
tickets purchased for ACBJ’s nationwide
events, and sells business leads published
by American City Business Leads – the unit
that publishes the “For the Record” and
“Business Leads” sections in most ACBJ’s
business publications.
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San Jose Business Manager Italo Jimenez
joined the paper in February 2001 as a
temporary accountant on a six-month assignment. Then a recent graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, he originally
intended to return to Los Angeles.
“By June, I had fallen in love with the
company,” he said. When he got a job offer in
Los Angeles, he told his supervisor he’d really
prefer to stay.
“The knowledge I acquired was exponential,” he said. “That was very exciting to me.”
Jimenez considers former Publisher Dick
Kreuz, who died in 2003, a mentor who
shared his knowledge and strategies.
“He was a teacher by nature,” he said. “He
took every mistake I made and turned it into
a learning experience. That was not what I
expected from corporate America.”
Jimenez was promoted to business
manager in 2002 and calls his position the
“nucleus” of the newspaper.
“Everyone comes to the business manager
for answers,” he said. “HR, budgeting, forecasting, circulation sales ﬁgures, looking over
contracts, ﬁnancials. It makes the day go fast.
I never know what to expect.”
Analytical by nature, Jimenez enjoys number-crunching, but he also appreciates his
paper’s reputation in the business community
and its commitment to news.
“It’s exciting walking down the street
Italo Jimenez
“I have been lucky
enough to acquire
a lot of knowledge
and I love passing
that on.”
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BUSINESS MANAGER
SAN JOSE BUSINESS JOURNAL
and having people say, ‘My boss advertises
with you,’ ” he said. “I hear a lot about the
business community. I’m involved. I’m not
missing anything.”
He praised ACBJ for making corporate
resources and staff available to the local
markets.
“I have access to the Chief Financial
Ofﬁcer, the controllers and the corporate
staff,” he said. “There’s no red tape, no huge
bureaucracy to go through. Decisions get
made very quickly. You can call someone up
with a problem and you’re able to come up
with a solution quickly.”
Coaching his staff members has been
fulﬁlling, he said.
“I have been lucky enough to acquire a lot
of knowledge,” he said, “and I love passing
that on.”
When a recent intern inquired about
seeking permanent employment with ACBJ,
Jimenez urged him on.
“I told him, ‘If you’re looking for corporate
experience and growth opportunities, ACBJ
has a lot of opportunity – all over the country
from Hawaii to Florida. You’re going to learn
and get hands-on experience in every part of
the business.”
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SBJ Deﬁnes the Sports Business Industry
The weekly authoritative voice on sports
business, SportsBusiness Journal provides
executives with breaking news each week and
comprehensive reporting on major news stories. Serving more than 54,000 weekly readers,
SportsBusiness Journal also provides in-depth
stories on events and trends.
With a team of seasoned reporters and editors and a host of guest columnists, SBJ keeps
readers up to date on the latest news and
developments in each of the major business
segments that make up our industry, including marketing, sponsorship, media, facilities,
agents and labor, and ﬁnance. SBJ also serves
as a platform for opinion and debate among
the leading voices across our industry.
The weekly delivery of SportsBusiness
Journal is augmented by the companion
online edition SportsBusinessJournal.com.
With more than eight years of archived material, SportsBusinessJournal.com has become
a one-stop, complete source of latest news,
research, and other reference tools.
SBJ’s Conference Group produces a roster
of conferences that dominate the world of
sports business. Among them:
• World Congress of Sports. The preeminent gathering of the leaders in sports
business, the World Congress of Sports is a
two-day event featuring keynote addresses
from some of the most powerful people in
sports.
• Sports Facilities & Franchises. The
one conference each year
where senior executives in
sports facility development,
design, operations and revenue generation can meet to
discuss issues and present
new ideas regarding the
successful development and
operation of sports facilities.
• Sports Sponsorship
Symposium. Since its
debut in 2003, the Sports
Sponsorship Symposium
has become the “must-attend” event for executives
at every level of sports sponsorship. With an
unrivaled speaker faculty of top corporate
sponsors and advertisers, the Sports Sponsorship Symposium delivers the latest sports
marketing trends from the perspective of
brand-side marketers.
• Sports Media & Technology. This conference gathers the executives who are shaping
the future of sports media and distribution.
Issues discussed include new technology,
revenue models, audience measurement,
behaviors and preferences of fans, and the
integration of media into the fan base. Featured
speakers come from every area of this industry,
including properties,
sponsors, media, agencies,
technology providers and
marketing.
• Motorsports
Marketing Forum. The
prime gathering of the
sponsorship and advertising
community in motorsports,
this forum is the platform
for sponsors, league ofﬁcials, teams, track owners
and ad agencies to present
their ideas on sponsorship,
the future of racing and the
driver-fan relationship.
• Intercollegiate Athletics Forum. This
program brings together athletic directors,
university presidents, media and sponsors to
examine the issues surrounding present-day
college sports. With speakers from the ranks of
academia, marketing ﬁrms, media and corporate sponsors, this event is the one time of year
when these constituencies meet and discuss
their mutual issues and opportunities.
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Daily Keeps Sports Executives on Top of Their Games
SportsBusiness Daily is the leading daily
executive news brieﬁng on the business
of sports and can be found exclusively at
www.sportsbusinessdaily.com.
Established in 1994 and acquired by
Street & Smith’s Sports Group in 1998,
SportsBusiness Daily “covers the coverage” from hundreds of newspapers,
magazines, online sources, press releases,
radio and TV news shows, and develops
its own original content, to provide the
industry professional with a smart, concise
look at the day’s top issues. Subscribers
pay $1,300 a year for the exclusive online
publication.
Monday through Friday, the subscription-based service offers e-mail alerts of
early-morning headlines at 9 a.m. Eastern.
The company’s ﬂagship product provides
a comprehensive look at the top issues of
the day at 12:30 p.m. Eastern, and a lateafternoon recap of the day’s events and the
evening’s highlights at 4 p.m. Eastern.
In addition, subscribers can access
complete archived material, years of ratings,
revenue ﬁgures and research data, daily
links highlighting articles of interest and
much more.
Clients include the major sports organizations around the world, teams, leagues,
governing bodies, TV networks, corporate
sponsors, sports marketing agencies,
sporting goods companies, radio and print
media, advertising and PR agencies, among
others. SportsBusiness Daily is considered
a “must read” by the top executives in the
industry, as evidenced by an extraordinary
subscription renewal rate of more than 80
percent over the past eight years.
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S
Sports and politics are very similar says
Abe Madkour, executive editor of the SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily.
He should know; he’s played in both arenas.
A native of Vermont, Madkour worked
full-time for Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., for several
years after graduating from the University of
Vermont. In 1994, a life-long love of sports
led him to the start-up SportsBusiness Daily,
then operating out of an old Victorian home
in Falls Church, VA.
Conceived as a news brieﬁng for sportsindustry executives, The Daily draws on 500
sources a day, covering the business of
sports in a brief, readable format.
Originally delivered via fax,
The Daily is now available to
subscribers on the Web.
The new publication
quickly became a staple
in front ofﬁces around the
country, and was owned
brieﬂy by Interzine Productions, then Times-Mirror,
before being purchased by
American City Business Journals in
1998. Madkour happily moved to Charlotte when the publication was relocated.
“I considered SportsBusiness Daily like a
child and I wanted to see it through,” he said.
“I really
like trying to be
innovative. Every day
and every week, we’re
doing something
creative.”
Abe Madkour
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EXECUTIVE EDITOR
SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL
and SPORTSBUSINESS DAILY
“It was like coming up with the big boys.”
ACBJ’s purchase allowed The Daily to
ﬂourish, he said.
“If you join ACBJ in editorial, you’re with a
company that will give you the resources and
support you need to do your job,” he said.
“There are an unbelievable amount of intellectual resources to draw on.”
“You earn your editorial chops,” he added.
“This is a news organization that wants to
break news.”
Madkour served as editor in chief of
The Daily until 2003, when he added the
SportsBusiness Journal to his responsibilities.
The move has led to greater collaboration
between the two publications, he said. The
two promote each others’ stories. Writers for
SportsBusiness Journal break news for the
Daily, and Daily writers contribute to SportsBusiness Journal.
“I really like trying to be innovative,” he
said. “Every day and every week, we’re doing
something creative.”
The two publications also have co-branded
events and jointly target speakers and topics
for up to eight leading industry conferences
and awards programs.
“They just get better and better,” Madkour
said of the events. “Better speakers, better
discussion.”
Madkour credits his coworkers for making
both publications great places to work and
says they offer writers exciting opportunities.
“Having your byline on a story that is read
by a league commissioner and other leading
executives who inﬂuence the sports business
or sets the debate – that’s a big deal.”
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Opportunities Abound for Aspiring ACBJ Employees
In addition to local internships provided by
many of our individual publications, American City Business Journals has three major
internship programs.
Summer Minority
Internship Program
Editorial
Internship Program
Advertising Sales
Internship Program
The American City Business Journal
Minority Internship Program exposes college
juniors and seniors from diverse talent pools
to the company and gives ACBJ a pipeline for
future hires.
A company is only as good as the people
it employs — ACBJ looks to tap into the national talent pool and reﬂect American
diversity. The Company believes
that by doing this, it stands to
beneﬁt from the strength of a
collection of varied voices
and abilities and will better reﬂect the communities it serves.
As part of the paid,
12-week Minority Internship Program, ACBJ hires
10 college juniors and
seniors who are interested in
working in business, communications and publishing.
ACBJ recruits interns at colleges and
universities and through trade organizations
and civic groups.
Students are selected by the Minority
Scholarship Committee based on submitted
materials, such as a cover letter, completed
application and letter of recommendation
from the ACBJ manager at the publication
looking to hire the intern. As with other ACBJ
internship programs, candidates are required
to submit at least three letters of recommendation and/or references from reliable
professionals or academicians proﬁcient in
the target areas this program covers.
The American City Business Journals
Editorial Internship Program was started
in 1997 as a way to bring strong talent into
our newsrooms. As part of the internship
program, ACBJ selects a total of 10 interns for
12 paid weeks.
Candidates must have published
clippings, be able to demonstrate a proﬁciency
for news writing,
and express, to
the participating editor’s
satisfaction,
an interest
in business
journalism
as a potential career
choice.
Candidates
must have at least
three recommendations
from reliable professionals or
academicians proﬁcient in the ﬁeld of journalism. Candidates selected will work solely
in reporting, editing, graphic or photography
positions.
American City Business Journals urges its
publications to aggressively pursue the Advertising Sales Internship Program as an avenue
for people interested in sales careers.
Advertising Sales Internships at American City Business Journals are intended to
broaden opportunities and add to the pool of
potential talent for longer-term employment
with the company. These internships provide
resources for advertising directors to aggressively recruit and train individuals who may
not have been available in the past.
As part of the 12-week, paid Advertising
Sales Internship at ACBJ, candidates should
be able to demonstrate advertising-sales
proﬁciencies. Interns also should express,
to the participating advertising director’s
satisfaction, an interest in advertising sales as
a potential career choice.
Candidates must have at least three written
recommendations from reliable professionals or academicians proﬁcient in the ﬁeld of
advertising sales, attesting to the candidate’s
qualiﬁcations.
Selected interns will be employed solely
in selling activities. An intern’s emphasis on
advertising sales, whether in display, classiﬁed
or Internet sales, will be determined.
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A company is
only as good as the
people it employs —
ACBJ wants to tap the
national talent pool and
reﬂect American
diversity.
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It was Charlotte, N.C. that ﬁrst lured Wedge
Abels, American City Business Journals’
Director of Financial Reporting and
Technology, north from Miami.
The former internal auditor for Knight-Ridder Inc. newspapers had visited the Queen
City to do work at The Charlotte Observer.
When the newspaper needed a new
controller in 1983, Abels jumped at
the job.
“I had visited and really enjoyed
it,” he said. “It’s a great city to raise
a family.”
And, a great place to start one,
he found. Abels met his wife, Debbie
Abels, at the Observer. Debbie currently holds the position of Publisher at
The Herald in Rock Hill, S.C. They married
in 1988 and have one daughter, Jennifer, who
is 13.
After 10 years at the Observer, Abels was
ready for a change. Former ACBJ Group
Publisher Mark Ethridge – also an Observer
alumnus – told Abels that ACBJ was looking
for a controller. Abels joined the company in
“Decisions take
minutes, not months.
That makes us a very
nimble company.”
Wedge Abels
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DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL REPORTING
AND TECHNOLOGY
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1993, and moved to his present job in 2003.
From the start, Abels has enjoyed ACBJ’s
family feeling.
“This is, by far, the best company I’ve ever
worked for,” he said. “People here really
want to work together. There are not a lot of
turf wars, which really limit your ability to
grow a company.”
His favorite thing about the company, Abels
said, is “not having to make an appointment
to walk into someone’s ofﬁce and say, ‘Have
you heard about this?’ or ‘What do you think
about that?’”
“You’re not dealing with a bureaucracy
in trying to get something into place or get
something moving,” he added. “Decisions
take minutes, not months. That makes us a
very nimble company.”
Since he joined the company, ACBJ’s proﬁle
in Charlotte and nationwide has grown considerably under the leadership of Chairman
Ray Shaw, Abels said.
“The company has a much stronger foundation. Respect for the company and for the
product has increased signiﬁcantly and that’s
because of Ray and the quality standard he
has provided.”
“There’s not a person I meet for the ﬁrst
time who doesn’t say, ‘Yes, I read the Charlotte Business Journal,’ and compliment it.”
ACBJ’s purchase by privately held Advance
Publications Inc. in 1995 has also contributed to its success, he said. That’s because
the Newhouse family, which owns Advance, is
committed to long-term growth.
“This is a family business,” he said. “The
Newhouses know that it’s a legacy that will
continue on generation after generation.”
Abels supervises a staff of 13 information
technology professionals, and says that, when
hiring, he looks for candidates who can work
independently and are excited about learning
new skills.
“I’m looking for someone who doesn’t
need a lot of structure, who can come into
our environment without knowing what
they’ll be doing every day,” he said. “Someone who is eager to get into different areas,
someone who is not afraid to make decisions
and take on responsibility.”
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ACBJ-sponsored Events
Create Connections in the Community
Creating connections in the business community has become an ACBJ tradition.
Each year, American City Business Journals’ publications host hundreds of events
in markets across the country. Many of them
are awards programs designed to honor
entrepreneurs and celebrate their achievements. Others are networking functions that
allow businessmen and women to mingle
with their peers and meet potential customers.
Whatever their theme, ACBJ publicationsponsored events provide readers and subscribers with opportunities to get to know
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SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily hosted the ﬁfth annual
Sports Sponsorship Symposium at New
York City’s Marriott Marquis hotel. A record
crowd of more than 450 sports executives,
including more than 100 top brand marketers, attended the event.
The attendees say the Sports Sponsorship
Symposium is such an important industry
event that it gets marked on executive calendars as soon as the dates are announced.
The Symposium featured a speaker faculty
that included 40 brand-side marketers such
as Under Armour, Google and Coca-Cola.
The Sports Sponsorship Symposium featured
case studies from the FedEx/PGA Tour,
DeWalt, Campbell’s Soup and Glacéau
vitaminwater, as well as roundtables that
investigated topics such as “Growing Brands
through Sports and Entertainment
Marketing” and “Reaching Targeted Market
Segments.”
Sporting News hosted a reception the
following day that included an auction
during which 10 framed photos from
noted baseball photographer Charles
Conlin were sold.
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Puget Sound Business Journal held
its Washington’s Best Work Places at Safeco
Field – home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team.
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Community
The event celebrated 65 winning companies and their employees. More than 1,200
people attended – dining on hotdogs, peanuts and Cracker Jack. Attendees also played
games on the ﬁeld. Each ﬁnalist received a
framed certiﬁcate and the winners received a
certiﬁcate plus an authentic Seattle Mariner
Major League Baseball jersey with their
company name on the back and the Business
Journal’s Washington’s Best Work Places
logo on the sleeve.
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The Washington Business Journal,
along with sponsors Beers & Cutler, First
Horizon, and Reed Smith, held its 10th annual Best Real Estate Deals celebration at the
Ronald Reagan Building and International
Trade Center. The successful awards dinner
recognizes the top commercial real estate
deals and transactions of the previous year.
The event drew more than 600 real estate
executives.
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More than 300 people attended Wichita
Business Journal’s second Best in Business awards luncheon at the Hyatt Regency
Wichita.
Fifteen companies were honored as ﬁnalists in the program, which judged companies
on ﬁnancial performance, corporate
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citizenship, and product and marketing
innovations. Five companies were named
overall winners: Airtechnics Inc., Ballard
Aviation/EagleMed, Key Construction LLC,
Martin K. Eby Construction Co. Inc. and Star
Lumber & Supply Co. Inc.
The CEOs of the winning companies and
their spouses will spend three days in Monterey, Calif., in the fall.
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The Dallas Business Journal wanted to
make the event different, celebratory and
memorable, so the paper adopted a theme
of “The Good Guys in the White Hats” at
its most recent celebration. During the
networking hour, photographers snapped
pictures of the various company teams as
they arrived, especially those sporting their
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The Dallas Business Journal’s Best
Places to Work in Dallas-Fort Worth has
become the most sought-after, high-proﬁle
business award in North Texas.
For the companies chosen as the Best
Places to Work in Dallas-Fort Worth, the
reward of recognition lasts much longer
than one day of celebration at the funﬁlled awards ceremony. It adds value to a
company’s reputation in the community and
enriches its corporate culture.
Former Pennsylvania Governor and former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh
was the keynote speaker at the Pittsburgh
Business Times’ recent Leadership Dialogue Series luncheon. Approximately 100
people attended the event, which was held at
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Columbus Business First has a busy
agenda of events throughout the year. The
Commercial Developers Power Breakfast
provides a valuable networking opportunity
for the nearly 1,000 local industry leaders
who attend it.
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The paper recognized and honored
exemplary companies that are creatively
dedicating their resources to a variety of
not-for-proﬁt organizations at the Corporate
Caring Awards Luncheon. The event also
enables not-for-proﬁt agencies to present
their services to the business community as
well as share ideas at the event’s Information
Exchange.
The paper honors the region’s medical professionals at its annual Health Care
Heroes Awards. The Fast 50 Awards highlight
the 50 fastest-growing companies in the
Central Ohio area. The Fast 50 has grown in
popularity each year and has become one of
Columbus Business First’s signature events,
attracting upwards of 600 attendees.
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At an Oscar-style event, the Tampa Bay
Business Journal recognized its BusinessWoman of the Year — Judy Genshaft,
president and CEO of the University of South
Florida — as part of a program to recognize
the contributions women have made to the
Bay area business community. Tampa Mayor
Pam Iorio co-emceed the event for the third
year in a row.
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1 — Former Pennsylvania Governor and former US
Attorney General Dick Thornburgh at Pittsburgh Business
Times’ Leadership Dialogue Series Luncheon; 2 — Christina
Kukuruda, president of Airtechnics Inc., accepts award at the Wichita
Business Journal’s 2007 Best in Business luncheon; 3 — Publisher Huntley
Payton presents the “Coveted Stetson” to Roberto van Geenan of the Ritz-Carlton,
Dallas, the #1-ranked “best place to work”; 4 — Doug Kridler, President & CEO,
The Columbus Foundation, Corporate Caring Awards Luncheon; 5 — Attendees
cheer for their winning company at Puget Sound Business Journal’s Washington
Best Work Place; 6 — Tampa Bay Partnership CEO Stuart Rogel delivers a
keynote address at the Fast 50 event; 7 — Columbus Corporate Caring Award;
8 — Wichita Business Journal Publisher John Ek, left, presents a 40 Under 40
award to Brian Black, former president and CEO of the Urban League of Kansas
Inc.; 9 — Puget Sound Business Journal Publisher Emory Thomas Jr and Columnist
Patti Payne cheer for one of the winners of the Washington’s Best Workplaces;
10 — At Dallas Business Journal’s Best Place to Work, the CEO of ﬁve-time ﬁnalist
esoftsolutions Inc/Liquid Agents Healthcare, Sheldon Arora, exalts in being a #1 ranked
company; 11, 12 — Sports Sponsorship Symposium: Katie Lacey, ESPN’s senior
vice president of marketing at the New York conference; 13 — The Washington
Business Journal’s Best Real Estate Deals reception: Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center, Washington DC; 14 — Columbus Business First’s
Commercial Developers Power Breakfast, Business First; 15 — USF
President Judy Genshaft is named the Tampa Bay Business
Journal’s “Business Woman of the Year”
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ACBJ employees are also active in the community volunteering for a variety of charitable
projects and raising funds for nonproﬁt
organizations.
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Proving that the power of the pen is mighty
indeed, the Austin Business Journal staff
teamed up to help The Wright House paint
broad strokes across a few walls during
United Way’s annual Day of Caring. Indulging
in some brush strokes of the colorful kind,
ABJers enjoyed a change of pace to help the
local nonproﬁt spruce up its ofﬁces. The
When the staffers at Milwaukee’s Business Journal want to get involved in the
community, they “Catch the Bug.”
The publication’s employee “fun” committee wanted to inject some energy into
its local non-proﬁt activities so it turned to
graphic artist Vern Montoto, who came up
the bug theme. She talked her co-workers
into becoming bug-covered models on the
posters that decorate the Business Journal ofﬁce and encourage volunteerism. The catchy
campaign hasn’t only caught the attention of
employees, but many visitors to the ofﬁce also
have commented on it.
And to reward employees who step up and
volunteer, Publisher Mark Sabljak hands out
framed photos of employees with bugs on
their faces at all-staff meetings.
The Business Journal’s push to get
involved doesn’t end with its employees.
The paper helped create a Milwaukee-area
marketing campaign to encourage volunteerism, called Project Ripple Effect, which has
enlisted hundreds of volunteers for local
non-proﬁts.
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Mud, sun and charity – enough to bring
seven Dayton Business Journal employees
and their friends out on a Saturday to help
raise money for The Epilepsy Foundation of
Western Ohio.
For the third consecutive year, the DBJ
staff formed a team to compete in the annual
Mudaritaville mud volleyball tournament.
More than 200 teams, many from local businesses, spend the day playing the traditional
game of volleyball in the most untraditional
setting: muddy, wet courts. But getting dirty is
worth it: proceeds from the tournament make
up about 25 percent of the local Epilepsy
Foundation’s annual budget.
The DBJ team, made up of staff members
Ashley Nehls, Yvonne Teems, Caleb Stephens,
Nakesha Volk, Katie Maurer, Kristy Leininger,
along with a few friends, managed a couple of
wins before heading to the showers.
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Wright House Wellness Center provides nutritional and educational services to people living with chronic illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS,
cancer and hepatitis C.
Approximately 45 people (including Wright
House volunteers) painted 1,800 square feet
in just six hours. During the course of the day,
six rooms were painted, using four colors
and 25 gallons of paint. The volunteers also
managed to scarf down 20 pizzas.
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Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons,
the event raised more than $500,000 for the
children of Home Safe.
“The Big Man” Clemons got the gala
started with a once-in-a-lifetime jam session
that included Dion DiMucci, Max Weinberg,
Carmine Appice and other legendary musicians. Their performance was followed by a
live auction, which created quite a bidding
war.
Bidders stood on their seats as three
custom paintings were created by Michael
Israel during a live exhibition. Israel’s artistic
performance took less than 30 minutes and
earned $64,000 for Home Safe. Several
celebrities mingled with attendees throughout
the gala, including the NBA’s Roy Hinson and
the NFL’s Kerry Glenn and Sean Hill.
The Classic! Golf and Tennis Tournament
at the Boca Lago Country Club took place
amid sunny skies and cool breezes – a great
day for golf and tennis and a great day for
the kids.
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Gary Press, publisher of the South Florida Business Journal, was Co-Chair of
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A group of Pittsburgh Business Times
staff members, their spouses and family
members volunteered for the Pittsburgh
Cares “Day of Caring.” The volunteers planted
ﬂowers on a busy corner next to one of the
city’s Carnegie Libraries, about a half block
from the Business Times’ ofﬁces.
Pittsburgh Cares is an umbrella organization that links volunteers with nonproﬁt organizations from around the Pittsburgh region.
The group determines the needs of nonproﬁts
and coordinates corporate volunteers with
projects that ﬁll those needs.
In 2007, more than 3,500 volunteers
from more than 60 companies logged more
than 23,000 hours on 148 projects for 112
regional nonproﬁt organizations.
Richard Cerilli, Pittsburgh Business Times
marketing director, has served on the Pittsburgh Cares advisory board for many years
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“Light The Night Walk” is The Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society’s nationwide two-to-three
mile evening walk to celebrate and commemorate lives that have been touched by cancer.
Participants carry illuminated balloons
— white for survivors and red for supporters. And it’s more than a walk — the evening
includes music, food and family activities.
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business
Journal team raised more than $1,500 for
the cause. Many employees participated
through fund-raising, and four employees
joined the walk — along with several friends
and family members.
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Nineteen employees at Paciﬁc Business
News in Honolulu participated in the annual
Hawaii Foodbank drive. The food drive is one
of the largest volunteer events in Hawaii, and
PBN employees decided it would be a great
way to support the newspaper’s communityoutreach efforts. PBN employees spent half
a day boxing up donations of canned food at
one of the big donation centers at Restaurant
Row near downtown Honolulu. The Hawaii
Foodbank supplies 270 agencies that, in
turn, feed more than 130,000 people
a year.
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Employees of the Boston Business Journal and Mass High Tech, along with family
members, participated in the 4th Annual
Mayor’s Cup Regatta. The Regatta consists of
Hawaiian outrigger canoe races on the Charles
River. The event raises more than $125,000
each year for AccesSportAmerica, a non-proﬁt
organization dedicated to the discovery and
achievement of higher function and ﬁtness
for children and adults of all abilities through
High-Challenge Sports.
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A team from the St. Louis Business
Journal helped build an inner city playground
as part of a national program sponsored by
Build-A-Bear Workshop. The playground was
built on land owned by Beyond Housing, an
organization that strengthens neighborhoods
by providing affordable housing to low-income
families. Business Journal employees painted
murals, built slides and planted trees.
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Hemmings Motor News staffers were
excited to participate in the Branson Vintage
Rally 2007. When Publisher Jim Menneto and
Operations Manager Janet Thompson crossed
the ﬁnish line at Branson Landing in Branson,
MO, they were both relieved to have ﬁnished
and disappointed that the ﬁve-day, 1,100-mile
Hemmings Branson Rally was complete. They
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Catch the bug.
Volunteerism is contagious.
Help give back to our community by volunteering.
The Fun Committee will be organizing groups to
volunteer together at events. Volunteering is fun,
but when you’re with friends, it’s even better.
Please check the board for available dates and
times. Warning, this is contagious. You may feel
dizzy, but catch the bug.
Volunteer today.
Organized by:
1 — Employees and friends from the Minneapolis/St. Paul
Business Journal joined the ﬁght against cancer at the annual
Light the Night Walk in St. Paul.; 2, 3 — Pittsburgh Business Times
staff members and their family members volunteering on a Pittsburgh Cares
project; 4 — Paciﬁc Business News employees help to box up canned foods for
the annual Hawaii Foodbank drive; 5 — Larry Fuller, president and publisher of
Paciﬁc Business News; Mary Beth Lohman, circulation director; Myra Kau, business
manager and Nanea Kalani, reporter volunteer at the annual Hawaii Foodbank drive;
6 — Austin Business Journal employees paint a row of shelves for the kitchen at
the Wright House, a nonproﬁt in East Austin; 7 — Clarence Clemons, legendary
sax player from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, host for The Classic! with South
Florida Business Journal Publisher Gary Press; 8 — Jenny Roanhouse and Todd
Bragstad served food and beverages at an oasis for the Miller Lite Ride for the Arts; 9
— The area for the Build-A-Bear Workshop (St. Louis) began as a mud hole and grew
into an enormous playground in just one day!; 10 — LaTonja Thomas & Bonnie Parks (St.
Louis) on landscaping duty for the Build-A-Bear Workshop playground; 11 — Members
of the Dayton Business Journal's mud-volleyball team at the annual Epilepsy Foundation's
Mudaritaville.; 12 — Rain-slickered and ready for anything, Jeff and Karen Stumb drive their
1916 Hudson hill-climber through the Hemmings start/ﬁnish arch in Branson; 13 — The
Boston Business Journal and Mass High Tech brought teams of employees and families
to the Charles River for the annual fund-raiser, AccesSportAmerica Outrigger
Canoe Race; 14 — Veronica Montoto (Milwaukee), Catch the Bug
volunteer campaign; 15 — Paul Pearson (Milwaukee)
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A funny thing happened when Sandy
Matsumoto left the San Jose Mercury News to
pursue her “dot-com dreams.” She decided
to stay in publishing and joined American
City Business Journals instead.
Matsumoto, who had been circulation
director of the San Jose Mercury News,
left the daily newspaper in 1999 to
pursue work with an Internet startup.
As she investigated various companies,
Matsumoto accepted an invitation to
interview with the late Dick Kreuz,
former publisher of the San Jose Business Journal.
The two had lunch, and Matsumoto didn’t think much would come of
the meeting. But he called her back
a week later to meet for coffee, and
offered her a job helping to set up
a West Coast Call Center for ACBJ.
“I was looking for something
different,” she recalled. “I knew
publishing, but this was still
challenging and new.”
She worked for 18 months
doing special projects for
Kreuz, setting up the West
Coast Call Center among
them. She then became a
regional circulation marketing director, the title
she holds today.
Matsumoto works with
12 of ACBJ’s 41 business journals as “their
partner in helping them grow.”
She assists them in developing budgets
and sales strategies and also works on
corporatewide contests and training sessions.
Matsumoto also helps publishers recruit new
circulation directors when a job opens up.
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“Everyone is
rooting for everyone
else to hit it. At the
end of the day, it’s
about all of us
winning.”
ACBJ’s open atmosphere was striking from the beginning, she
said.
“When I got here, it was astounding to
me,” she said. “There was no hierarchy.
Everyone was so very helpful. Then, when I
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started the regional
job and would go and
visit a market, everyone was so welcoming
and willing to share.”
Although the business
journal markets are
competitive, it’s friendly
competition, she said.
“Everyone is rooting for
everyone else to hit it,” she
said. “At the end of the day,
it’s about all of us winning.”
She appreciates that ACBJ
values teamwork.
“You really feel it here, and
see the results,” she said.
When she is recruiting for the
company, Matsumoto tells candidates that ACBJ offers “a great
environment to work in.”
“I tell people there are so many resources;
40 other circulation directors out there who
are willing to help you,” she said. “Everyone
is here to help you be successful.”
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Car Collectors Drive Hemmings’ Success
Founded in 1954 Hemmings Motor News
is considered the industry standard by hobbyists who are serious about collecting cars.
HEMMINGS MOTOR NEWS
The ﬁrst issue of Hemmings Motor News
consisted of four pages, and just 500 copies
were sold at 50 cents apiece. Today, Hemmings has more than 180,000 subscribers.
An additional 45,000 copies are sold each
month at newsstands and in bookstores
throughout the U.S.
Hemmings also publishes the monthly
Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings
Classic Car and Hemmings Sports & Exotic
Car.
Sparking more interest in car-collecting,
Hemmings publishes seven annual calendars
– including the artfully photographed Aban-
doned Autos, Cars of the ’50s, Vintage Pickup
Trucks, Muscle Cars, Early Ford V-8s, Vermont
Classic Cars and Sports & Exotic Cars.
Each year, Hemmings also attends more
than 100 car shows and related auto events
nationwide.
Every summer, car collectors ﬂock to Hemmings Motor News’ headquarters in Vermont
to attend Thursday night “cruise-ins,” where
hopefuls vie for trophies for their vehicles.
In 2005 and 2006, Hemmings Motor
News was a major sponsor of the Great Race
Across America. Hemmings also participated in the event, driving a 1934 Dodge
panel truck over more than 4,000 miles of
winding back roads, and crossing the Rocky
Mountains.
Today, Hemmings Motor News employs a
staff of 100 at its world headquarters in
Bennington, VT.
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Hemmings Motor News Publisher Jim
Menneto has always been motivated by challenge.
Menneto came to the Business Review of
Albany as director of advertising in 1986 from
a job in medical sales.
“I was switching jobs every two years; at
the time I subscribed to the theory that the
grass is always greener,” he recalled. “But I
read the Business Review for sales leads and
I got very enthusiastic about the opportunity.
I saw the upside potential and it was very
exciting.”
Within a year, he was the
paper’s publisher.
“I learned an awful lot
and it was one of the
most exciting things
I’ve ever done,” Menneto said.
One of his ﬁrst
moves was to get active
in the local community.
“It was really interesting
to see how people feel about
the paper,” he said. “Listening
to people talk about how important that
paper was to them, I got more enthusiastic
about the opportunity. It was intoxicating.”
In 1989, Menneto became publisher of the
Boston Business Journal before its acquisition
by American City Business Journals.
“It was a turnaround situation,” he
recalled. “The paper was losing money. I
thought to myself, ‘You were looking for a
“It ﬂoats my
boat that the work I
do is needed, wanted,
appreciated and
revered by my
customer base.”
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challenge: Man, here’s
a challenge.’
“It was the most
amazing thing I’ve ever
done in my life,” he
added. “No one wanted
me to be there. The paper
was referred to as ‘The Titanic’
and new people were described as deckhands rearranging the deck chairs.”
After “an awful year and a half” the paper
was back in shape and was subsequently
purchased by ACBJ. Menneto stayed on until
2002.
“I thought I’d be there the rest of my days,”
he said. “There was no reason to leave. I
loved it there.”
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But another challenge came along when
Chairman Ray Shaw asked him to become
publisher of Hemmings Motor News, which
had recently been bought by ACBJ.
A car aﬁcionado himself, Menneto says
he was amazed by subscribers’ loyalty to the
publication, which is known as “the Bible of
old-car hobby.”
“Until I came to Hemmings, no one had
ever asked to have their picture taken with
me or for my autograph,” he said. “It shows
me how people revere this brand. I’m a
shepherd of this brand, and I take that very
seriously.”
Since joining Hemmings, Menneto and his
team have launched four new publications
and “brought the business journal style to the
magazines,” improving content and design to
readers’ approval.
“It ﬂoats my boat that the work I do is
needed, wanted, appreciated and revered by
my customer base,” he said.
Menneto recommends ACBJ for the opportunities it offers.
“If it’s important to you to work at a company that recognizes people as individuals
and gives them an opportunity to move up the
corporate ladder, and if you’re willing to do
what it takes to stand out from the rest, you’ll
be recognized.”
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His father’s off-handed recommendation
to check out an ad for the Austin Business
Journal is what landed Michael Stanaland his
ﬁrst job at American City Business Journals.
The executive for a Texas utility company
was on a commuter ﬂight when he noticed
that the Business Journal was advertising for a
designer and sent the paper along to his son.
Stanaland was hired in 1997 as a temporary employee and within two weeks
was hired on full time. Today, he is creative
services director at the Washington Business
Journal – not where he expected to end
up when he was a pre-med major
at Angelo State University in
Texas.
“I was very fortunate
in high school that
my parents decided I
needed to get a job,”
he recalled, with a
laugh. “They fully
expected me to go to
Sonic, but I got a parttime job at the San Angelo
Standard-Times.”
Stanaland started off working 20 hours a week on the copy desk
where he began designing pages. By the time
he left for college two years later, he was up
to almost 40 hours a week.
In college, he worked on the school
newspaper, the Rampage, and although he
graduated with a major in biology and a
minor in chemistry, he knew journalism was
his career path.
“By the time I graduated, I knew much
more about journalism than I did about biology,” he said.
His parents, he said, were supportive.
“They said more than once, ‘You do know
we don’t expect you to go to medical school,
don’t you?’ ”
After two years as design editor in Austin,
Stanaland had a brief stint as a designer at
online company. It wasn’t long, though, before he accepted former Washington Business
Journal Editor Beth Hunt’s invitation to join
“You do what you
like and grow how
you’d like to grow and
be supported.”
her staff.
In Washington,
Stanaland served as
design editor, then
design director, before
receiving his current title.
“What attracted me was
the people I work with. It’s all
about the work environment,” he said.
“You do what you like and grow how you’d
like to grow and be supported.”
Stanaland said he also enjoys helping his
staff members develop their talents.
“I’m in a position where I can teach people
who don’t know as much as I do now, but
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who have the potential to be better than I
am,” he said. “It’s fun to fuel the ﬁre.”
Working as a manager has honed his
leadership skills, he added.
“I’ve learned how to work with other
people to plan a project, how to get others
on board and to transcend the minutiae of
the day-to-day and work on a larger scale,”
he said.
He said he wouldn’t hesitate to recommend ACBJ to a friend.
“This is not like a big company where you
get put in a shoebox and have to exist in that
little shoebox.”
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Publisher Joanna Wessman’s ﬁrst job at the
Sacramento Business Journal was intended as
a placeholder between stints at two corporate
giants, Target Stores Inc. and Staples.
A store manager for Target, Wessman
had accepted a job as a corporate trainer at
Staples. She took a temporary job at the paper to ﬁll in for the credit manager, who was
on leave following the birth of a child.
Soon after, the advertising director left,
and then-Publisher Dan Kennedy asked her
to oversee that department until he hired
a replacement. When he subsequently offered her the job, Wessman called Staples
and said, “This is an opportunity I don’t
want to pass up.”
That opportunity led to her promotion
to publisher upon Kennedy’s retirement.
Although her husband, John, expressed some reservations when she
became ad director, Wessman was
excited by the challenge.
“My husband said, ‘You don’t have
any ad experience.’ I said, ‘They
don’t need that, they need leadership. I can learn the other part,’ ”
she recalled. “I loved the feel of the
place, the product, the energy.”
Wessman praised the company
for the support she received,
particularly from her former
publisher. Kennedy receives, “a lot of credit”
for his collaborative management style,
which Wessman said prepared her for the
publisher’s job.
“I’m driven by challenge, and Dan recognized that early on. He’s a great leader. He
recognizes the talents of people and gives you
the autonomy to make or break yourself.”
She also praised Corporate Marketing
Director Bob Silvy for the assistance he lends
Joanna Wessman
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omy to operate
locally with the
support of a big
company.”
The ﬁvetime winner
of an American
Eagle Award for
Excellence also
has appreciated the
recognition she has
received.
She recalled a market visit from Chairman
Ray Shaw after “three
miserable months,”
when he told her, “You’re
doing a great job and if
you need anything, pick
up the phone and call.”
A congratulatory letter
she received from the Chairman several years later, after
her sales team made its sales
revenue goals 23 months
in a row, now hangs in a
place of honor in her
ofﬁce.
Although she has
not worked in retail
for more than a decade, Wessman is still
sensitive to the seasonal
calendar.
“I’ve learned that
Christmas doesn’t have to be
wacky,” she laughed. “After retail,
October would roll around and I would get
all ﬁred up. But it was good, because then I
would focus on pre-booking ads for the next
year.”
In recruiting, Wessman says she sells ACBJ
as “a company ﬁrst because to young people
stability is important.”
“They think, ‘I want to go to a company
where I can learn, have an experience that
will help me in the future, but have a chance
to stay if I want to.’ ”
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In recruiting,
Wessman says
she sells ACBJ as “a
company ﬁrst because
to young people
stability is
important.”
the markets.
“The week after I joined
ACBJ, Bob Silvy sent me a box
of sales tools and I thought I’d died
and gone to heaven. I was elated,” she said.
Although she’s had some headhunters call
during the years, Wessman says her loyalty to
the company springs from having, “the auton-
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Entrepreneurial Spirit Marked Business Journals’ Success
By BILL SCHADEWALD
Editor, Houston Business Journal
The rise of modern weekly business journals is one of those overnight success stories
that began unfolding more than 30 years ago.
From humble beginnings in a Houston
garage, the Houston Business Journal is today
a thriving voice for the city’s business community. The industry leader is American
Houston Editor
City Business Journals Inc., which
Bill Schadewald has
publishes 41 business journals and
one technology publication from
worked at the Houston
coast to coast, and in Hawaii.
Editor Bill Schadewald and
Business Journal since Houston Business Journal newsroom
After nearly three decades workstaff members.
ing as a reporter and editor at one
its startup days in
of the very ﬁrst business journals, I’m
the early '70s.
occasionally asked how it all happened.
opportune time, when
What exactly was it that made business
the business community was
journals so successful?
hungry for local exposure and recognition.
The answer didn’t really dawn on me
Without realizing it, we created a niche to
until 1996, while I was doing research and
tap this pent-up demand. And I suspect that
compiling information for the Houston Busithis same formula was responsible for the
ness Journal’s 25th anniversary edition. Part
chain reaction that spawned similar business
of the project involved checking the archives
journal success stories in other cities.
of Houston’s two daily newspapers. In each,
the “Business Section” consisted of two pages
ACBJ History
stuck between the sports section and the
comics. The “news” was conﬁned mostly to
personnel promotions and slightly rewritten
press releases.
Here was one of the most enterprising
cities in the world, a city that thrived on
business and was run by industry leaders, but
there was absolutely no sense of this vibrancy
and excitement in the big dailies.
Businesspeople had the national media
to tell them what was going on across the
country and around the world, but nobody
was informing them what was taking place
— and why — right up the street.
By pure chance, or maybe intuition, the
Houston Business Journal came along at an
Humble beginnings
for Houston startup
A forerunner for future papers, the Paciﬁc
Business News was launched by George
Mason in Hawaii in 1963. But the ﬁrst business journal to blaze the trail on the mainland
appeared in Houston almost seven years later.
The Houston Business Journal was
conceived by Bob Gray early in 1971. An
entrepreneur in the classic sense, Gray was
a journalist who left a secure job in the
mainstream media to set up his own publishing company in a small garage. (His spartan
startup quarters were later featured by Inc.
magazine in a story about famous garages.)
The ﬁrst edition of Gray’s Houston Business
Journal rolled off the presses in July 1971,
but he wasn’t the only one to spot the business community’s thirst for news. In 1980,
a young St. Louis entrepreneur, Mark Vittert,
joined a couple of friends, Andy Newman of
the Edison Brothers Shoe Family of St. Louis,
and insurance tycoon John Burkhart of Indianapolis, to start the Indianapolis Business
Journal, which was an immediate success.
Within months, Vittert felt conﬁdent
enough to start a business journal in his
hometown, and the St. Louis Business Journal
was born. In only four years, his company,
Business Journal Publications, Inc., started
business journals in Baltimore, Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Dallas.
In 1982, Mike Russell and William “Doc”
Worley, a pair of Kansas City real estate developers, created the Kansas City Business Journal, planting the seeds of a company called
American City Business Journals (ACBJ).
In addition to the Kansas City paper, the
entrepreneurial duo also launched business
journals in San Jose, Milwaukee, Portland,
Columbus, Louisville, Wichita and Buffalo.
I had little more than a vague awareness
of the business journal concept when I was
summoned to the Houston paper’s company
ofﬁces for a job interview in 1973. I still
can vividly recall the long drive through the
hinterlands of north Houston to the small,
nondescript metal building where Gray had
moved after his expanding company outgrew
its garage quarters.
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The place was literally in the middle of
nowhere. Across the street, horses whinnied welcome from a fenced-in ﬁeld. Next
door, cows grazed contentedly by a pond in a
pasture. In the early 1970s, getting the paper
out was still kind of a weekly event along
the lines of the classic children’s cry: “Let’s
put on a show in the barn.” A staff of fewer
than 10 worked into the wee hours of many
mornings, cutting and pasting each edition
together. We stayed so busy that there wasn’t
any time to pause and reﬂect on the possibility that what we were doing just couldn’t be
done. By the mid-70s, the paper took off and
swelled from 24 pages to an average of 52
pages per week.
Cordovan Corp., which owned the Houston
Business Journal, didn’t pause after conquering Houston. It marched on Atlanta in
1977 and then inundated the West with
a continuing barrage of startups ranging
from Denver, Phoenix and San Diego to
Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle
during the next two years.
It soon became obvious that this torrid
expansion couldn’t be sustained with existing cash ﬂow. While the Houston operation
was pumping out ever-increasing revenues
and proﬁts (the paper appeared on the front
page of USA Today in 1979 as the fastestgrowing business journal in the country), the
newer journals needed fresh capital. So Gray
shopped the company around, and the Houston ofﬁces played host to a series of acquisitive visitors. In 1980, Scripps-Howard Co., the
Cincinnati, Ohio-based media conglomerate,
bought the Houston chain.
On Oct. 31, 1986, I was called to a hastily
convened meeting upstairs in the Houston
ofﬁces of Scripps-Howard Business Journals,
where a ﬁnancial ofﬁcer of ACBJ announced
that the Scripps papers would be the property
of the Kansas City-based chain at the end of
the year. He apologized that the company’s
principals, Russell and Worley, were unable
to be on hand. They were in St. Louis, signing
the ﬁnal papers to purchase the Vittert group
of six business journals.
A nationwide network of some three dozen
Every city with a skyline
has a business journal
The early 1980s were marked by intense
competition as the burgeoning groups
prowled the country for new markets to conquer. Some went head-to-head in single cities.
By the mid-1980s, every city with a skyline
had its own business journal. More than 100
weekly tabloids owned by independent operators or groups ﬁlled every metropolitan nook
and cranny. Consolidation was inevitable.
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have believed it,” Koch said.
ACBJ’s growth has virtually skyrocketed
since. Under Mr. Shaw’s leadership, the
number of business journals has nearly
doubled to 41. ACBJ also has acquired
Hemmings Motor News, NASCAR Scene,
NASCAR Illustrated, the SportsBusiness Daily
and Sporting News, introduced its online
division, bizjournals, and launched Street &
Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal.
In 1995, ACBJ left the public spotlight and
returned to the private sector when the company was acquired by the Newhouse family,
owners of one of the most prominent media
companies in the world.
With Mr. Shaw still at the helm, ACBJ
became part of the Advance Publications
Inc. division, joining an impressive array
of high-proﬁle periodicals in the process.
The business journals assumed their
place as the newest members in a prestigious lineup of notable household names
including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and
Parade Magazine.
In 1995, ACBJ
left the public spotlight
and returned to the private
sector when the company
was acquired by the Newhouse
family, owners of one of the
most prominent media
Entrepreneurial spirit
companies in the
lives on
world.
major metropolitan business journals was
forged in a single afternoon. There was even
some talk of expanding overseas. But the
stock market crash of 1987 blunted those
plans, and the publicly-held ACBJ suddenly
became a takeover candidate itself.
By 1989, the controlling interest in ACBJ
changed hands. Ray Shaw, former president
of Dow Jones & Company Inc., took over as
chairman and the company’s headquarters
were moved to Charlotte.
As Richard Koch, ACBJ’s former senior
vice president, secretary and general counsel,
described it, “in came Ray on a white horse,”
bringing the young company much-needed
management expertise.
“If someone had told me the month before
that the next person I’d be working for was
the former president of Dow Jones, I wouldn’t
The Houston Business Journal has been
through a lot of changes since I ﬁrst stepped
out of my car amid the cows and horses in
north Houston nearly three decades ago.
During that same period, the business
journal industry has evolved from a loose collection of individual weeklies to a full-blown
national market force with a commanding
presence in print and on the Internet. I’ll
admit that almost 30 years ago I didn’t envision ever being part of an inﬂuential media
chain with such broad reach and widespread
recognition.
In some ways, though, things haven’t
changed that much at all. The entrepreneurial
spirit that spawned weekly business journals
is still alive and well. Local market coverage
continues to come ﬁrst, and the papers have
a lot of latitude in fulﬁlling this primary mission. Then, as now and in the future, business
news right up the street will continue to be
right down our alley.
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Overview of ACBJ Employee Beneﬁts Programs
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
American City Business Journals provides
you with three choices for comprehensive
major medical care.
Open Access Plus (OAP) is available
at most ACBJ locations. For a co-payment
for a primary care physician or a co-payment for a specialty care physician, you
may visit any doctor who is a member of
CIGNA HealthCare’s OAP network. Your
business manager will give you a booklet
with the names of member doctors who are
close to your home. When using out-ofnetwork doctors, you must pay for services
when they’re received, then ﬁle a claim for
reimbursement.
NETWORK: CIGNA’s Network Plan (Network) is available in most ACBJ locations.
You and your family members may select
a primary care physician (PCP) from the
doctors in the CIGNA HealthCare network.
All medical services must be provided or
authorized by your primary care physician.
There is no deductible but there is a co-pay
for visiting your primary care physician and
a co-payment for visiting a specialty care
physician. Your business manager will give
you a booklet with the names of member
doctors who are close to your home. If you
choose a doctor outside the network, you
are responsible for all costs.
HRA: The CIGNA Choice Fund HRA is
available at most ACBJ locations. Under
this program, ACBJ establishes a fund that
can be used to pay for covered health care
expenses during the year. Amounts paid
by the fund for medical services covered
by the health plan are applied towards
the plan deductible. Prescription drugs
do not apply to the deductible. Once you
have used the dollars in your health fund,
you pay your expenses up to the remaining
plan deductible. Once your deductible is
met, your medical plan begins providing
coverage for eligible services as a traditional insurance plan. The CIGNA HealthCare Open Access Plus is the underlying
network for the Choice Fund HRA.
ACBJ offers same sex-domestic partner
beneﬁts to its gay and lesbian employees.
See your local business manager for details
about obtaining coverage.
Beneﬁts
Pharmacy. All plans offer a prescription drug card. CIGNA offers a three-tier
pharmacy program in both the OAP and
Network plans. The co-payment amount
depends on the prescribed medication’s tier
level – generic, preferred brand or non-preferred brand. CIGNA HRA plan provides for
coverage of retail pharmacy charges and is
paid either by the fund or by the participant
depending on the availability of funds in the
HRA. All three CIGNA plans offer mail-order
pharmacy beneﬁts with co-payments based
on the medication’s tier level.
Mental Health. All plans offer coverage
for inpatient and outpatient mental health
services.
Employee Assistance Program. LifeBalance, an Employee Assistance Program
(EAP), is designed to help you and your
family assess and resolve problems with the
help of trained counselors.
24-Hour Health Information Line.
Participants in all three CIGNA health plans
have access to 24-hour health information
lines staffed by registered nurses. Please
refer to your health plan ID card for the
customer service number to reach the 24hour health information line.
Dental. All ACBJ employees enrolled in
a company health plan have CIGNA PPO
dental coverage
Vision. Under CIGNA OAP and CIGNA
HRA plans, Vision Service Plan (“VSP”)
provides vision care through its network
of providers. Under the Network plan,
routine eye care is provided as part of the
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LIFE INSURANCE
Basic Life, Accidental Death and
Dismemberment Insurance. ACBJ provides basic term life insurance to all beneﬁt
eligible employees. The company also provides accidental death and dismemberment
insurance. Coverage for both is offered
free of charge through the Prudential Life
Insurance Co.
Supplemental Life Insurance. Additional life insurance may be purchased
from Prudential Life Insurance Co. Accelerated death beneﬁts are provided in the
event of a terminal illness. Proof of insurability may be required.
Dependent Life Insurance. Additional
term life insurance per dependent may be
purchased from Prudential Life Insurance
Co. Term life insurance for spouses also
is available. Proof of insurability may be
required.
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PRE-TAX SPENDING PLANS
Flexible Spending Accounts. ACBJ
sponsors a Flexible Spending Account Plan
that allows you to pay a portion of your
medical and dental premiums on a pre-tax
basis. You also may use two ﬂexible spending accounts: a Dependent Care Account
and a Medical Reimbursement Account,
which allow you to set aside pre-tax dollars
for day care expenses and unreimbursed
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medical expenses. You may enroll at your
time of hire, or during the annual enrollment period of each year.
In addition to pre-tax payroll deductions allowed for out-of-pocket health care
and dependent care in the company’s FSA,
ACBJ has added pre-tax payroll deductions
for public transit to work and parking
expenses while at work.
The transit beneﬁt is good for monthly
passes, tokens, fare cards and vouchers for
subway/metros/buses/trains and ferries on
a pre-tax basis. This means you can save
the federal and state taxes that would be
withheld from your paycheck for the amount
allocated to the FSA. The beneﬁt is also available for vanpooling in a qualiﬁed vehicle.
The parking beneﬁt is for parking at
work and parking at a location where an
employee picks up public transportation or
a vanpool for work on a pre-tax basis.
Participants can spend up to the amount
currently available in their Transit or Parking Account at the time of purchase up to
the monthly beneﬁt limits set by the IRS.
Unclaimed account contributions will
roll forward from month to month and
from year to year, so there is no forfeiture
like those required in the health care and
dependent FSA beneﬁt. A person’s enrollment will remain effective until he cancels
the plan or terminates service with the
company.
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requires your care. For purposes of this
policy, immediate family means a dependent child, a dependent stepchild, spouse
or parent. Time off for scheduled doctor’s
appointments may be treated as sick leave.
SICK LEAVE, DISABILITY LEAVE
Sick Leave. Regular full-time employees
(40 hours per week) earn sick leave at the
rate of one-half day per month of employment, or six days a year. You may accumulate up to 30 days of sick leave. Earned but
unused sick leave will not be paid at termination of employment. If you work less than
40 hours, but more than 20 hours a week,
you will earn sick leave days at a rate based
on the length of your normal workday. Sick
leave may be used for absences caused
by your illness or injury, or the illness or
injury of an immediate family member who
Short-Term Disability. Regular, fulltime (30 hours per week) employees are eligible for a disability leave of up to 12 weeks
after completing one year of employment.
Disability leave requests must be certiﬁed by
your doctor and must include the anticipated
Beneﬁts
dates of absence. Pregnancy is treated the
same as any other medical disability.
ACBJ reserves the right to initiate a leave
of absence if your attendance and the quality and quantity of your work are adversely
affected by an illness or disability. The ﬁrst
two weeks of a disability leave are unpaid,
the next six weeks are paid at your base
rate, and the remaining weeks are unpaid.
You must apply unused sick and vacation
days to the unpaid portion of your leave.
Long-Term Disability. ACBJ provides
long-term disability insurance to beneﬁt eligible employees. Long-term disability insurance provides ﬁnancial protection for you
by paying a portion of your income while
you have a long period of disability. The
amount you receive is based on a percentage of the amount you earned before your
disability began. ACBJ pays the premium
for this insurance through the Prudential
Life Insurance Company.
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HOLIDAYS/VACATION/PERSONAL DAYS
Company Holidays. ACBJ observes
seven paid holidays each year: New Year’s
Day; Memorial Day; Independence Day;
Labor Day; Thanksgiving Day, Friday after
Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. If you
normally work less than 40 hours per
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week, you will be paid for the holiday on a
pro-rata basis.
Vacation. Full-time employees (40
hours per week) earn 10 vacation days a
year for their ﬁrst three years with ACBJ.
Each year ends on the anniversary of the
day you started working for the company.
You may take your ﬁrst week’s vacation
after six months of employment. After three
years with ACBJ, you earn 15 vacation
days a year; after eight years, you earn 20
vacation days, and after 15 years, you earn
25 vacation days. If you are a part-time
employee, you earn two weeks of vacation
based on the number of hours you work
per week. For example, if you regularly
work 30 hours per week, you will earn two
weeks of vacation at 30 hours per week.
Personal Days. All full-time employees
receive four personal days each year to
be used at any time with the approval of
your department manager. Personal days
not taken by year’s end are forfeited, and
unused personal days are not paid at the
termination of employment.
During the ﬁrst year of service, employees earn personal days on the following
guidelines:
• If you start with ACBJ between January
1 and March 31, you receive four
personal days
• If you start with ACBJ between April 1
and May 31, you receive three personal
days
• If you start with ACBJ between June
1 and August 31, you receive two
personal days
• If you start with ACBJ between September 1 and October 31, you receive one
personal day
• If you start with ACBJ after October 31,
you receive no personal days
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RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Educational Assistance. Assistance is
provided for courses of study that are directly related your job, or that will enhance
your potential for advancement within
ACBJ. The class work must be offered by
an accredited institution of learning. The
amount of assistance is based on the grade
you receive. You must be full-time (40
hours) and assistance must be approved in
advance by your publisher or unit operating
head.
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401(k) Plan. ACBJ sponsors a 401(k)
retirement savings plan that allows you
to invest your salary to the IRS limit on a
pre-tax basis. You may enter the plan on the
ﬁrst day of the month following your hire
date provided you are a regular employee
(not temporary) and at least 21 years
old. You may designate part or all of your
contribution as post-tax Roth contributions.
The combined pre-tax and post-tax contributions are permitted to the maximum
allowed by the IRS. Participants 50 or
older may contribute an additional amount
in pre-tax or post-tax contributions.
Company matching is available. Fidelity
Retirement Services is the trustee and fund
manager of the company’s 401(k) plan.
Retiree Health Insurance. When you
retire from ACBJ, the company will pay
a portion of your health insurance if you
meet certain criteria. Premium payments
are based on a point system that combines
your age with the number of years you have
worked for ACBJ. To be eligible you must
have a minimum of 20 years of service with
ACBJ and be at least 55 years old. Employees must be covered by ACBJ’s OAP plan
when you retire and remain covered by the
ACBJ plan continuously during retirement.
At age 65 the ACBJ plan is supplementary
to Medicare. An employee who is eligible for retiree health insurance but is
discharged for gross misconduct may not
receive retiree beneﬁts. No dependent
other than a spouse is eligible for coverage
under the plan.
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Regular full-time employees who work
30 hours each week are eligible for most
beneﬁts, unless speciﬁcally noted. This is
intended to provide an overview of company
beneﬁts. All company beneﬁts are subject
to change at anytime at the discretion of the
Company.
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January 1, 2008
Beneﬁts
DISCOUNTS
Employees are able to take advantage of
special discount prices on subscriptions to
Condé Nast Publications, Fairchild Publications, and The Golf Digest Companies, among
others. Magazines offered are:
Vogue
Architectural Digest
Teen Vogue
Self
Men’s Vogue
Gourmet
Glamour
Vanity Fair
Bon Appétit
House & Garden
Golf Digest
The New Yorker
Bride’s
Portfolio
Elegant Bride
Cookie
Modern Bride
GQ
W
Details
NASCAR Illustrated
Sports Business Journal
NASCAR Scene
Hemmings Muscle Machines
EDUCATION BENEFITS
Sporting News
Hemmings Sports & Exotic Cars
Scholarship Program. ACBJ sponsors
two college undergraduate scholarships
each year for children of full-time employees. The competition is conducted by
National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a
non-proﬁt organization devoted exclusively
to scholarship activities.
Inside Lacrosse
Hemmings Motor News
Allure
Hemmings Classic Cars
Lucky
Domino
Golf World
Traveler
Golf for Women
Wired
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AMERICAN CITY BUSINESS JOURNALS DIRECTORY
BUSINESS UNIT
ADDRESS
PHONE
WEB SITE
The Business Review (Albany)
40 British American Blvd., Latham, NY, 12110
(518) 640-6800
albany.bizjournals.com
New Mexico Business Weekly (Albuquerque) 116 Central Ave. SW, Suite 202, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
(505) 768-7008
albuquerque.bizjournals.com
Atlanta Business Chronicle
3423 Piedmont Road, Suite 400, Atlanta, GA 30305
(404) 249-1000
atlanta.bizjournals.com
Austin Business Journal
111 Congress Ave., Suite 750, Austin, TX, 78701
(512) 494-2500
austin.bizjournals.com
Baltimore Business Journal
111 Market Place, Suite 720, Baltimore, MD, 21202
(410) 576-1161
baltimore.bizjournals.com
Birmingham Business Journal
2140 11th Ave. South, Suite 205, Birmingham, AL, 35205
(205) 322-0000
birmingham.bizjournals.com
Boston Business Journal
160 Federal Street, 12th Floor, Boston, MA 02110
(617) 330-1000
boston.bizjournals.com
Buffalo Business First
465 Main St., Buffalo, NY, 14203-1793
(716) 854-5822
buffalo.bizjournals.com
Charlotte Business Journal
1100 South Tryon Street, Suite 100, Charlotte, NC 28203
(704) 973-1100
charlotte.bizjournals.com
Business Courier (Cincinnati)
101 W. Seventh St., Cincinnati, OH, 45202
(513) 621-6665
cincinnati.bizjournals.com
Columbus Business First
303 W. Nationwide Blvd., Columbus, OH, 43215
(614) 461-4040
columbus.bizjournals.com
Dallas Business Journal
12801 N. Central Expwy., Suite 800, Dallas, TX, 75243
(214) 696-5959
dallas.bizjournals.com
Dayton Business Journal
137 N. Main St., Suite 800, Dayton, OH, 45402
(937) 222-6900
dayton.bizjournals.com
Denver Business Journal
1700 Broadway, Suite 515, Denver, CO, 80290
(303) 837-3500
denver.bizjournals.com
East Bay Business Times
6160 Stoneridge Mall Rd., Suite 300, Pleasanton, CA, 94588
(925) 598-1830
eastbay.bizjournals.com
The Business Journal (Greensboro)
100 S. Elm St., Suite 400, Greensboro, NC 27401
(336) 271-6539
triad.bizjournals.com
Pacific Business News (Honolulu)
1833 Kalakaua Ave., 7th Floor, Honolulu, HI 96815
(808) 955-8100
pacific.bizjournals.com
Houston Business Journal
1233 W. Loop South, Suite 1300, Houston, TX, 77027
(713) 688-8811
houston.bizjournals.com
Jacksonville Business Journal
1200 Riverplace Blvd., Suite 201, Jacksonville, FL, 32207
(904) 396-3502
jacksonville.bizjournals.com
Kansas City Business Journal
1100 Main Street, Suite 210, Kansas City, MO 64105-5123
(816) 421-5900
kansascity.bizjournals.com
Business First of Louisville
501 S. 4th St., Suite 130, Louisville, KY, 40202
(502) 583-1731
louisville.bizjournals.com
Mass High Tech
160 Federal Street, 12th Floor, Boston, MA 02110
(617) 242-1224
MassHighTech.com
Memphis Business Journal
80 Monroe Ave., Suite 600, Memphis, TN, 38103
(901) 523-1000
memphis.bizjournals.com
The Business Journal (Milwaukee)
600 W. Virginia St., Suite 500, Milwaukee, WI, 53204-9935
(414) 278-7788
milwaukee.bizjournals.com
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
120 South, 6th Street, Suite 900, Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 288-2100
twincities.bizjournals.com
Nashville Business Journal
344 4th Avenue North, Nashville, TN, 37219
(615) 248-2222
nashville.bizjournals.com
Orlando Business Journal
315 E. Robinson St., Suite 250, Orlando, FL, 32801
(407) 649-8470
orlando.bizjournals.com
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BUSINESS UNIT
ADDRESS
PHONE
WEB SITE
Philadelphia Business Journal
400 Market St., Suite 1200, Philadelphia, PA, 19106-2503
(215) 238-1450
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The Business Journal of Phoenix
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(602) 230-8400
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Pittsburgh Business Times
424 South 27th Street, Suite 211, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
(412) 481-6397
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Portland Business Journal
851 SW 6th Ave., Suite 500, Portland, OR, 97204
(503) 274-8733
portland.bizjournals.com
Triangle Business Journal (Raleigh/Durham)
1305 Navaho Dr., Suite 100, Raleigh, NC, 27609
(919) 878-0010
triangle.bizjournals.com
Sacramento Business Journal
1400 X Street, Sacramento, CA, 95818
(916) 447-7661
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St. Louis Business Journal
Old Post Office, 815 Olive St., Suite 100, St. Louis, MO 63101
(314) 421-6200
stlouis.bizjournals.com
San Antonio Business Journal
8200 IH 10 West, Suite 820, San Antonio, TX 78230
(210) 341-3202
sanantonio.bizjournals.com
San Francisco Business Times
275 Battery St., Suite 940, San Francisco, CA, 94111
(415) 989-2522
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Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
96 N. Third St., Suite 100, San Jose, CA, 95112
(408) 295-3800
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801 Second Ave, Suite 210 Norton Bldg, Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 876-5500
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South Florida Business Journal
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(954) 949-7600
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Tampa Bay Business Journal
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(813) 873-8225
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Washington Business Journal
1555 Wilson Blvd., Suite 400, Arlington, VA, 22209
(703) 258-0800
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Wichita Business Journal
121 North Mead, Suite 100, Wichita, KS 67202
(316) 267-6406
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BUSINESS UNIT
ADDRESS
PHONE
WEB SITE
Street & Smith’s Sports Annuals
120 West Morehead St., Suite 230, Charlotte, NC, 28202
(704) 973-1575
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Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal
120 West Morehead St., Suite 310, Charlotte, NC, 28202
(704) 973-1400
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(704) 973-1500
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120 West Morehead St., Suite 320, Charlotte, NC, 28202
(704) 973-1300
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(704) 973-1300
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222 Main St., P.O. Box 256, Bennington, VT 05201
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120 West Morehead Street, Suite 200, Charlotte, NC 28202
(704) 973-1553
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Inside Lacrosse
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(410) 583-8740
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American City BUSINESS JOURNALS
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WHO WE ARE
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WHAT WE VALUE
ACBJ Journalism awards received in 2006 and 2007
for work published in 2005 and 2006
Each year, American City Business Journals
newspapers win hundreds of awards from
professional journalism organizations, civic
groups and charities. Here are the awards won
by ACBJ business journals in 2006 and 2007:
ALBANY
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial or Column
New York Press Association, Second Place, Past
President’s Award for General Excellence
New York Press Association, Second Place,
Overall Design
New York Press Association, Second Place,
Feature Photos
New York Press Association, Third Place, Best
Front Page
New York Press Association, Third Place, Best
Editorial Page
New York Press Association, Third Place, Coverage of Business, Financial and Economic News
New York Press Association, Third Place, Best
House Ad/Ad Campaign
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial or Column
New York Press Association, First Place, Covering Business, Financial and Economic News
New York Press Association, First Place, Best
Front Page
New York Press Association, First Place, Best
Small Space Ad
New York Press Association, Second Place, Best
House Ad Campaign
New York Press Association, Second Place, Best
Newspaper Image Promotion
New York Press Association, Third Place, Best
Advertising Campaign, Small Space
ATLANTA
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Web
Operation
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Design
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Impact
Story
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, General
Excellence
Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors,
First Place, Online Reporting, Capitolbeat
Awards
Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors,
Second Place, Capitolbeat Awards
Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors,
Second Place, Capitolbeat Awards
Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors,
Third Place, Capitolbeat Awards
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Best in Business, Weekly
2007
Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors,
Second Place, Single Report
AUSTIN
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Use of
Photography
BALTIMORE
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Individual
Research Effort
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Web Operation
Awards
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial or Column
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, Newspaper
of the Year
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, First Place,
Best in Show, Editorial
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, First Place,
Series
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, First Place,
Investigative Reporting
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, First Place,
State Government
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, First Place,
Sports Feature
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, First Place,
Medical Science
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, First Place,
Art or Illustration
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, Second
Place, State Government
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, Second
Place, Business/Economic
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, Second
Place, Growth & Development
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, Second
Place, Page One Design
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, Second
Place, Enterprise News Story
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, Runner-up,
Best Individual Research Effort
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, Runner-up,
Best Overall Web Operation
Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Club, Runner-up,
Best Writing in a Story, Editorial or Column
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Individual
Research Effort
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Web Operation
BIRMINGHAM
2006
Alabama Press Association, Best Web Product
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Design
Alabama Press Association, First Place, Best
Newspaper Web Site
Alabama Press Association, First Place, Best
Local Economic Coverage
Alabama Press Association, Third Place, Best
Use of Photograph
Alabama Press Association, Third Place, Best
Layout and Design
BOSTON
2006
New England Press Association, First Place,
Illustration
New England Press Association, Second Place,
Illustration
New England Press Association, Second Place,
Editorial Supplement Or Special Section
New England Press Association, Third Place,
Social Issues Feature Story
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Impact
Story
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Certiﬁcate of Merit, General Excellence
BUFFALO
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Use of
Photography
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial or Column
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, General
Excellence
New York Press Association, First Place, Business, Financial & Economic News
New York Press Association, Second Place, Best
News Story
New York Press Association, Second Place,
Agriculture
New York Press Association, Second Place, Best
Front Page
New York Press Association, Second Place, Best
Multi-Advertiser Pages
New York Press Association, Third Place, Best
Humor Column
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial or Column
New York Press Association, Second Place,
Coverage of Elections/Politics
New York Press Association, Third Place, Coverage of Business, Financial & Economic News
CHARLOTTE
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall
Special/Focus Section
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Web Operation
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
Best News Enterprise Story
North Carolina Technology Association, Finalist,
Media Award
2007
U.S. Small Business Administration, Journalist
of the Year
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Web
Operation
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Special
Publication
CINCINNATI
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Impact Story
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
First Place, Enterprise/Database Reporting
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
First Place, Continuing Coverage
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
First Place, Information Graphics
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
First Place, Beat Reporting
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
Second Place General Deadline
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable Mention, Enterprise/Database
Reporting
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
Honorable Mention, Business Columns/Analysis
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, First
Place, Best Explanatory Journalism
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Best Investigative Reporting
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, News Front
Page Design
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Infographics
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Personality
Proﬁle
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, General
News
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place,
Infographics
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Spread
or Multiple Page Design
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Business
Article
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Business
Article
Press Club of Cleveland, Third Place, Infographics
Press Club of Cleveland, Fourth Place,
Infographics
Press Club of Cleveland, Fifth Place, Infographics
American City BUSINESS JOURNALS
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Impact
Story
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
First Place, Enterprise Reporting
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
First Place, Front Page Layout
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
First Place Photo Illustration
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
Second Place, Page Design
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
Second Place, Informational Graphic
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
Third Place, Enterprise Reporting
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
Third Place, Business Feature
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
Third Place, Column Writing
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
Third Place, Page Design
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
Honorable Mention, Business Feature
Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists,
Honorable Mention, Trend Reporting
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, First
Place, Best Consumer Reporting
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Best Coverage of the Environment
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Infographics, Non-Daily Newspaper
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Public
Service/Investigative, Business Publications
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Public
Service/Investigative, Business Publications
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Trends,
Business Publications
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Trends,
Business Publications
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Public
Service/Investigative, Business Publications
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Departments or Columns, Business Publications
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Single
Cartoon, Non-Daily Newspapers, Print Visuals
COLUMBUS
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Design
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Individual
Research Effort
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, First
Place, Use of Public Record
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Explanatory Journalism
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Breaking
News
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Photo
Journalism
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Trends
Reporting
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Package
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Studio
Photography
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Individual
Research Effort
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, First
Place, Best Environmental Coverage
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, First
35
Place, Best Medical/Science Reporting
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, First
Place, Best Explanatory Journalism
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Best Business Publication
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Studio
Photography
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Pictorial
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Best
News Package
DALLAS
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, General Excellence
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Design
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall
Special/Focus Section
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Individual
Research Effort
Dallas Press Club Katie Award, Best Special
Interest Newspaper
Dallas Press Club Katie Award, Best Government/Political Story
Awards
Dallas Press Club Katie Award Certiﬁcate of
Merit, Best Business News Story
Dallas Press Club Katie Award Certiﬁcate of
Merit, Best Series
Dallas Press Club Katie Award Certiﬁcate of
Merit, Best Specialty News Reporting
Dallas Press Club Katie Award Certiﬁcate of
Merit, Best News Web Site
Dallas Press Club Katie Award Certiﬁcate of
Merit, General Column Writing
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Best in Business, Breaking News
Society of American Business Editors, and Writers, Best in Business, Columns
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Web
Operation
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, General
Excellence
DAYTON
2006
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Print
Visuals
2007
Cincinnati Society if Professional Journalists,
Second Place, Beat Reporting
Cincinnati Society if Professional Journalists,
Honorable Mention, Informational Graphic
Cincinnati Society if Professional Journalists,
Honorable Mention, Enterprise Reporting
Graphic Design USA, American Graphic Design
Award for Logo Design
Graphic Design USA, American Graphic Design
Award for Single Page Design
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Best Business Coverage
Press Club of Cleveland, First Place, Single
Page Design
WHO WE ARE
Press Club of Cleveland, Second Place, Business
Publications General News
DENVER
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Web
Operation
Colorado Press Association, First Place, Best
Informational Graphic
Colorado Press Association, First Place, Best
Feature Page Design
Colorado Press Association, First Place, Best
Business Story
Colorado Press Association, First Place, Best
Humorous Column Writing
Colorado Press Association, Second Place, Best
Feature Page Design
Colorado Press Association, Third Place, Best
Special Section
Colorado Press Association, Third Place, Best
Business Story
Denver Press Club/Newspaper Guild, Third
Place, Commentary and Analysis
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Arts and Entertainment Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Cartooning
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Personal Columns
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Business/Investigative Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Business Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Legal Affairs
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Editorial Writing
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Special
Publication
Colorado Press Association, First Place, Best
Sustained Coverage
Colorado Press Association, First Place, First
Place, Best Story
Colorado Press Association, First Place, First
Place, Editorial Cartooning
Colorado Press Association, First Place, Editorial
Writing
Colorado Press Association, Second Place,
Sustained Coverage
Colorado Press Association, Second Place,
Overall Editorial and Design
Colorado Press Association, Second Place,
Special Section
Colorado Press Association, Third Place,
Headline Writing
Colorado Press Association, Third Place, Best
Business Story
Colorado Press Association, Third Place,
Content, Advertising and Interactivity
Society of Professional Journalists, Journalist
of the Year
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business – General Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business Investigative Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business Columns
❘
WHAT WE VALUE
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Cartoons
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Special Section
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Feature Writing - Business
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Editorials
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Personal Columns
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Feature Photo
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Feature Photo
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Online Web Site Excellence
EAST BAY
2006
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
First Place, Front Page
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
First Place, Editorial Cartoons
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Second Place, Page Design
East Bay Press Club, First Place, Illustration
East Bay Press Club, First Place, Business
News Story
East Bay Press Club, Second Place, Editorial
East Bay Press Club, Third Place, Business
Feature
2007
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
First Place, Tabloid Front Page
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
First Place, Page Layout & Design
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Second Place, Best Business or Financial Story
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Second Place, Special Issue
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Second Place, Editorial Cartoon
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Honorable Mention, General Excellence
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Honorable Mention, Editorial pages
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Honorable Mention, Environmental or Resource
Reporting,
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Honorable Mention, Photo Essay
East Bay Press Club, Second Place, Business
Story
East Bay Press Club, Second Place, Columnist
East Bay Press Club, Second Place, Editorial
East Bay Press Club, Second Place, Editorial
Cartoon
East Bay Press Club, Third Place, Illustration
GREENSBORO
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Use of
Photography
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
Editorials
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
Feature Writing
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
Sports Feature Writing
American City BUSINESS JOURNALS
North Carolina Press Association, Third Place,
Appearance and Design
2007
ACBJ Eagle Award, Runner-up, Best Research
Effort
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
Appearance and Design
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
Criticism
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
Photo Illustration
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
General Excellence
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
Special Section
North Carolina Press Association, Third Place,
Proﬁle Feature
HAWAII
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial or Column
Hawaii Publisher’s Association, Best Non-Daily
Newspaper
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, General Excellence
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Impact Story
HEMMINGS
2007
Society of Automotive Historians, Richard and
Grace Brigham Award, Outstanding Treatment of
Historical Topics
HOUSTON
2006
Houston Press Club Lone Star Award, First
Place, Editorial Design
Houston Press Club Lone Star Award, Second
Place, Editorial Design
Houston Press Club Lone Star Award, Second
Place, General Commentary
Texas Press Association, First Place, Feature
Writing
Texas Press Association, First Place, Page
Design
Texas Press Association, Third Place, Column
Writing
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Special
Publication
JACKSONVILLE
2006
Florida Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting
Florida Press Association, First Place, First
Amendment Defense
Florida Press Association, Third Place, Special
Section
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Special Projects
36
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Focus Section
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Individual
Research Effort
KANSAS CITY
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Individual
Research Effort
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Special/Focus Section
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Impact
Story
Kansas Press Association, First Place,
Infographic
Kansas Press Association, First Place, Editorial
Cartoon
Kansas Press Association, First Place, Special
Section
Kansas Press Association, First Place, News and
Writing Excellence
Kansas Press Association, Second Place,
Infographic
Awards
Kansas Press Association, Second Place,
Column Writing
Kansas Press Association, Second Place,
Feature Package
Kansas Press Association, Second Place, Local
Business Story
Kansas Press Association, Second Place, Design
and Layout Excellence
Kansas Press Association, Third Place, Feature
Package
Kansas Press Association, Third Place, Government/Political Story
Kansas Press Association, Third Place, Headline
Writing
Kansas Press Association, Honorable Mention,
Series
Kansas City Press Club, Second Place, Best
Editorial
Kansas City Press Club, Honorable Mention,
Public Service Project
Kansas City Press Club, Honorable Mention,
Web Site
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Individual
Research Effort
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Use of
Photography
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Focus
Section
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Web Operation
Kansas Press Association, First Place, Government/Political
Kansas Press Association, First Place,
Agricultural
Kansas Press Association, First Place, Special
Section
Kansas Press Association, First Place, Feature
Package
Kansas Press Association, First Place, Headline
Writing
WHO WE ARE
Kansas Press Association, Second Place,
Column Writing
Kansas Press Association, Second Place,
Headline Writing
Kansas Press Association, Second Place, Photo
Illustration
Kansas Press Association, Second Place,
Infographic
Kansas Press Association, Second Place, Web
Site
Kansas Press Association, Third Place,
Agricultural
Kansas Press Association, Third Place, Photo
Illustration
Kansas Press Association, Third Place, Design
and Layout Excellence
Kansas Press Association, Honorable Mention,
Headline Writing
Kansas City Press Club, First Place, Web Site
Kansas City Press Club, Second Place, Beat
Reporting
Kansas City Press Club, Second Place, Investigative Reporting
Kansas City Press Club, Second Place, Editorial
Kansas City Press Club, Third Place, Public
Service Project
Kansas City Press Club, Honorable Mention,
Public Service Project
Kansas City Press Club, Honorable Mention,
General Reporting
LOUISVILLE
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Use of
Photography
Society of American Business Writers and Editors, Certiﬁcate of Merit, Column Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Continuing Coverage
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Women’s Affairs
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Graphic Illustration
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Page Design
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Service Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Minority Affairs
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Women’s Issues
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Deadline Reporting Online
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Business Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Healthcare Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Sports Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Deadline Reporting Online
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Continuing Coverage
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Enterprise Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Business Reporting
❘
WHAT WE VALUE
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Healthcare Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Column Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Sports Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Page Design
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Healthcare Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Page Design
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Cover Design
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, Photography
2007
ACBL Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Special
Publications
Society of American Business Editors and
Writers, Best in Business Award for Overall
Excellence
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Best News Story
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Women’s Affairs
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Service Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Graphic Illustration
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Minority Affairs Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Women’s Issues Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Breaking News Reporting Online
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Business Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Health Care Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Feature Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Headline Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Breaking News Reporting Online
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Sports Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Photography
MASS HIGH TECH
2006
ACBJ Eagle Award, Runner-up, General Excellence
2007
ACBJ Eagle Award, Winner, Best Overall Design
MEMPHIS
2006
Green Eyeshades Awards, First Place, Editorial
Writing
Tennessee Hospital Association, Community
Service Award
Tennessee Press Association, First Place,
American City BUSINESS JOURNALS
Editorials
Tennessee Press Association, First Place, Best
Personal Humor Column
Tennessee Press Association, First Place, Community Lifestyles
Tennessee Press Association, Second Place,
Local Features
Tennessee Press Association, Second Place,
Best Single Editorial
Tennessee Press Association, Third Place, Best
Personal Column
Tennessee Press Association, Fourth Place, Best
News Photograph
2007
Tennessee Press Association, First Place, Best
Investigative Reporting
Tennessee Press Association, First Place, Best
Single Editorial
Tennessee Press Association, First Place, Best
Education Reporting
Tennessee Press Association, First Place, Best
Personal Column
Tennessee Press Association, Second Place,
Editorials
Tennessee Press Association, Second Place,
Headline Writing
Tennessee Press Association, Fourth Place, Best
Personal Humor Column
Tennessee Press Association, Fourth Place, Best
Single Feature
Tennessee Press Association, Fourth Place, Best
Feature Photograph
Tennessee Press Association, Fifth Place,
Makeup and Appearance
Tennessee Press Association, Fifth Place, Local
Features
MILWAUKEE
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Design
The Leaders Forum of Milwaukee, Diversity in
Action Award
2007
Milwaukee Press Club, Top Business Story or
Series
MINNEAPOLIS
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Use of
Photography
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Individual
Research Effort
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Photojournalism/Portrait
Society of Professional Journalists, First place,
Best Overall Package
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Photojournalism/Portrait
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Best Web Site
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Business General Column
Society of Professional Journalists, Third place,
Business General Column
Society of Professional Journalists, Third place,
Business Spot News
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, General Excellence
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Web Operation
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business In-depth
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Sports Feature
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Graphics and Illustrations Spot News
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Photojournalism Feature
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Photojournalism Portrait
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Photojournalism Pictorial
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Section Front Layout
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Feature Page Layout
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Best Overall Package
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Business Spot News
Awards
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Business Feature
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Business General Column
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Editorial Column
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Art & Illustration
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Photojournalism Portrait
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Best Special Section
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Business Spot News
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Business Feature
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Art & Illustration
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Photojournalism Feature
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Page 1 Layout
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WHO WE ARE
National Motorsports Press Association, Second
Place, Open Division
National Motorsports Press Association, Second
Place, Feature Photography
National Motorsports Press Association, Second
Place, Spot News
National Motorsports Press Association, Second
Place, Race Coverage
National Motorsports Press Association, Third
Place, Portrait/Personality Photography
National Motorsports Press Association, Third
Place, Open Division
National Motorsports Press Association, Third
Place, Feature Photography
National Motorsports Press Association, Third
Place, Race Action Photography
National Motorsports Press Association, Third
Place, Portrait Personality
National Motorsports Press Association, Third
Place, Features
National Motorsports Press Association, Third
Place, Spot News
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
Web Site
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
Sports Features
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
Sports Columns
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
Appearance and Design
North Carolina Press Association, Third Place,
General Excellence
NASHVILLE
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Design
NEW MEXICO
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Special/Focus Section
New Mexico Press Association, First Place,
Supplements/Special Editions
2007
New Mexico Press Association, First Place,
Special Supplement
U.S. Small Business Administration, Small
Business Journalist of the Year
NASCAR SCENE
ORLANDO
2006
National Motorsports Press Association, Photo
of the Year
National Motorsports Press Association, Writer
of the Year
National Motorsports Press Association, First
Place, Portrait/Personality Photography
National Motorsports Press Association, First
Place, Feature Photography
National Motorsports Press Association, First
Place, Spot News
National Motorsports Press Association, First
Place, Race Coverage
National Motorsports Press Association, First
Place, Columns
National Motorsports Press Association, Second
Place, Crash Action Photography
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Impact
Story
Florida Press Association, First Place, Sports
Story
Florida Press Association, First Place, Agricultural Writing
Florida Press Association, Second Place, Front
Page makeup
Florida Press Association, Third Place, Investigative Reporting
Florida Press Association, Honorable Mention,
In-depth News Reporting
Florida Press Club, First Place, Editorials
Florida Press Club, Second Place, The Frances
DeVore Award for Public Service
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Breaking
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WHAT WE VALUE
News
Florida Press Club, Second Place, General News
Photography
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Info-graphic
Presentation
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Government
News
Florida Press Club, Second Place, On-line
Publication
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Business Writing
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Education News
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Portrait/Personality Photography
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Environmental
Writing
Green Eyeshades Awards, First Place, Investigative Reporting
Green Eyeshades Awards, First Place, Sports
Reporting
Green Eyeshades Awards, Third Place, Editorials
North Central Florida SBJ, First Place, General
Reporting, Non-daily, Single Story
North Central Florida SBJ, First Place, Business
Reporting
North Central Florida SBJ, Second Place, General
Reporting, Non-daily, Single Story
North Central Florida SBJ, Second Place,
Investigative Reporting
North Central Florida SBJ, Second Place, Business Reporting
North Central Florida SBJ, Second Place, Education Reporting
North Central Florida SBJ, Second Place,
Editorial
North Central Florida SBJ, Third Place, Business
Reporting
North Central Florida SBJ, Third Place, Environmental Reporting
North Central Florida SBJ, Second Place,
Design/Copy Editing
North Central Florida SBJ, Third Place, News
Photo Essay
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, First Place, Special Projects
Sunshine State Awards, First Place, Editorials
Sunshine State Awards, Second Place, Gene
Miller Award for Investigative Reporting
2007
ACBJ Eagle Award, Winner, Best Use of
Photography
ACBJ Eagle Award, Runner-up, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial or Column
Florida Press Association, First Place, Overall
Graphic Design
Florida Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting
Florida Press Association, First Place, Feature
Story
Florida Press Association, Second Place,
Individual Graphic
Florida Press Association, Third Place,
Environmental
Florida Press Association, Third Place, Front
Page Makeup
Florida Press Association, Third Place, Business
Writing
Florida Press Club, First Place, In-depth
Reporting
Florida Press Club, First Place, Health
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Editorial
Florida Press Club, Second Place, General News
American City BUSINESS JOURNALS
Photos
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Minority News
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Environmental
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Front Page
Design
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Business Page
Design
PHILADELPHIA
2006
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, Non-Daily Newspaper of the Year
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, First Place, News-writing Excellence
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association
Foundation, First Place, Editorial/Opinion Page
Excellence
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, First Place, Special Section
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, First Place, House Ads and Events
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, Honorable Mention, Advertising Excellence
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, Honorable
Mention, Business or Consumer Story
Philadelphia Press Association Keystone
Awards, First Place, Special Subject Writing
Philadelphia Press Association Keystone
Awards, First Place, Business Coverage
Philadelphia Press Association, Keystone
Awards First Place, Sports Writing
Philadelphia Press Association Keystone
Awards, First Place, Writing Weekly Division
Philadelphia Press Association Keystone
Awards, Second Place, Editorial Comment
Philadelphia Press Association Keystone
Awards, Second Place, Overall Coverage Weekly
Division
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Non-Deadline Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Non-Deadline Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Online Operation
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Editorial Column
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, General Excellence
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Overall Design
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, First Place, News-writing Excellence
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, First Place, Advertising Excellence
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, First Place, Layout and Design
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, First Place, Special Edition
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, First Place, Newspaper Promotion
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, Second, Newspaper of the Year
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Keystone
Awards, First Place, Special Project or Series
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Keystone
Awards, First Place, Sports Beat Reporting
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Keystone
Awards, Second Place, Business or Consumer
Story
Philadelphia Press Association, First Place,
Business Coverage
38
Philadelphia Press Association, First Place,
Subject Writing
Philadelphia Press Association, Second Place,
Business Coverage
Philadelphia Press Association, Honorable
Mention, Sports Coverage
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
News Graphic
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Online
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Sports Story
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Non-Deadline Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Headline Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Editorial Column
PHOENIX
2006
Arizona Newspaper Association, Reporting and
News Writing Excellence
Awards
Arizona Newspaper Association, Departmental
News/Copyediting Excellence
Arizona Newspaper Association, Page Design
Excellence
Arizona Newspaper Association, Special Section,
Newspaper Supp./Magazine, 25th Anniversary
Arizona Newspaper Association, Newspaper
Online Site/Web Page
Arizona Newspaper Association, Best Feature
Photograph
Arizona Newspaper Association, Best Feature
Photograph
Arizona Newspaper Association, Best Feature
Photograph
2007
Arizona Latino Business Coalition, Business
Advocate of the Year
Arizona Newspaper Association, First Place,
General Excellence
Arizona Newspaper Association, Second Place,
Reporting & News Writing Excellence
Arizona Newspaper Association, Second Place,
Page Design Excellence
Arizona Newspaper Association, Second Place,
Newspaper Online Site/Web Page
Arizona Newspaper Association, Second Place,
Best Headline
Arizona Newspaper Association, Second Place,
Best Sports Story
Arizona Newspaper Association, Second Place,
Special Section/Newspaper
Arizona Newspaper Association, Third Place,
Special Section/Newspaper Supplement or
Magazine
Arizona Press Club, Second Place, Business
Writing
Arizona Press Club, Second Place, Sports
Reporting
WHO WE ARE
PITTSBURGH
2006
Golden Quill Award, Finalist, Editorial
Golden Quill Award, Finalist, Continuing
Coverage
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Design
PORTLAND
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Use of
Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Page 1 Design
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Editorial Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Headline Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, General Features
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Social Issues
Society of Professional Journalists, Tied for
Third, Social Issues
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
News Feature
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, Education
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, General Features
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, News Features
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, Food/Consumer
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, Business Feature
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Use of
Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Editorial Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Headline Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Column-Writing
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Business Features
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Sports Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Business News
RALEIGH
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, General Excellence
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Finalist,
Local Circulation Weeklies
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
Investigative Reporting
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
Special Section
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
Community Service
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
Special Section
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
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WHAT WE VALUE
General Excellence
North Carolina Press Association, Second Place,
Appearance and Design
North Carolina Press Association, Third Place,
Feature Writing
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Best in Business
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Impact
Story
National Federation of Press Women Awards,
Second Place, News Reporting
National Federation of Press Women Awards,
Second Place, News Reporting
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
General Excellence
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
Special Reports
North Carolina Press Association, First Place,
Editorials
North Carolina Press Association, Third Place,
Headline Writing
North Carolina Press Association, Third Place,
Community Service Award
SACRAMENTO
2007
ACBJ Eagle Award, Winner, Best Special
Publications
ACBJ Eagle Award, Runner-up, Best Focus
Selection
SAN ANTONIO
2006
BEST Award, Coverage of Downtown San Antonio
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Excellence, Business Story
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Excellence, Feature Story
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Excellence, Ongoing Column
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Excellence, Sports Story
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Investigative Story
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Science/Medicine Story
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Technology Story
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Travel/Tourism Story
2007
Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Second
Place, Best Breaking Internet Story
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Hard News Story
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Feature Story
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Regular Opinion/Editorial Column
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Investigative Series
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Special Section
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Major News Event
Women in Communications Proliner Awards,
Award of Merit, Press Photography
American City BUSINESS JOURNALS
SAN FRANCISCO
2006
California Newspaper Association, First Place,
General Excellence
California Newspaper Association, First Place,
Special Issue
California Newspaper Association, Second Place,
Editorial Comment
California Newspaper Association, Second Place,
Page Layout & Design
California Newspaper Association, Second Place,
Illustration/Infographic
California Newspaper Association, Second Place,
Web Site
East Bay Press Club, First Place, Best Technology Story
East Bay Press Club, First Place, Best Columnist
East Bay Press Club, Second Place, Beat
Reporting
East Bay Press Club, Second Place, Business
Story
East Bay Press Club, Third Place, Page Design
East Bay Press Club, Third Place, Infographic
National Society of Newspaper Columnists, First
Place, Humor Category
Peninsula Press Club, First Place, Technology
Peninsula Press Club, Second Place, Editorial
Peninsula Press Club, Second Place, Business
Story
Peninsula Press Club, Second Place, Page
Design
Peninsula Press Club, Honorable Mention, Beat
Coverage
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Design
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, General
Excellence
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial or Column
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Use of
Photography
American Society of Business Publication
Editors, National Competition, Silver Award,
Editorial
American Society of Business Publication Editors, West Region, Gold Award, Individual/Company Proﬁle
American Society of Business Publication
Editors, West Region, Bronze Award, Original
Research
American Society of Business Publication Editors, West Region, Silver Award, Feature Article
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
First Place, Editorial Comment
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
First Place, Front Page
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Second Place, Page Layout and Design
East Bay Press Club, First Place, Business
Feature
East Bay Press Club, Second Place, Editorial
East Bay Press Club, Second Place, Illustration
East Bay Press Club, Second Place, Photograph
Peninsula Press Club, First Place, Editorial
Peninsula Press Club, First Place, Technology
Story
Peninsula Press Club, First Place, Business
Story
Peninsula Press Club, First Place, Page Design
Peninsula Press Club, Second Place, Technology
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Story
Peninsula Press Club, Second Place, Page
Design
Peninsula Press Club, Honorable Mention,
Editorial
Peninsula Press Club, Honorable Mention,
News Story
Peninsula Press Club, Honorable Mention,
Business Story
SAN JOSE
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Impact Story
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Operation
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
First Place, Best Business Story
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
First Place, Best Special Issue
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Second Place, Editorial Comment
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Second Place, Tabloid Front Page
Awards
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Second Place, Sports Story
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Second Place, Commentary
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Honorable Mention, Best Web Site
California Newspaper Publishers Association,
Honorable Mention, Editorial Pages
Peninsula Press Club, First place, News Analysis
Peninsula Press Club, Second Place, Business
Story
Peninsula Press Club, Second Place, Best
Columns News/Political
Peninsula Press Club, Second Place, Editorial
Peninsula Press Club, Honorable Mention,
Continuing News Coverage
Peninsula Press Club, Honorable Mention,
Feature Story
SEATTLE
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Impact Story
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial or Column
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Use of
Photography
Society of American Business Editors and
Writers, Best in Business For 2005, Weekly
Publications
Society of American Business Editors and
Writers, Best in Business, Enterprise Reporting,
Weekly Publications
Society of American Business Editors and
Writers, Best in Business, Special Projects,
Weekly Publications
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business News
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Arts and Criticism News/Features
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
WHO WE ARE
Government/Political Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Portrait Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Leisure and Lifestyle Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Cover Design
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Cartoons
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Illustrations
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Personalities
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Portrait Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Business News
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Sports Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Leisure and Lifestyle Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, General News Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, Consumer/Environmental Affairs
Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Sweepstakes Award, Non-Daily Newspapers
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial or Column
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, General
Excellence
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Use of
Photography
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Certiﬁcate of Merit, Overall Excellence
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, First Place, Projects
Society of Professional Journalists, General
Excellence
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Social Issues
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Minorities
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Leisure & Lifestyle Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Feature Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Portrait Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Cartoons
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Page Design
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business News/Feature
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Portrait Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Personalities
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Education Coverage
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, General News Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Cartoons
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Illustrations
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Leisure & Lifestyle Reporting
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WHAT WE VALUE
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Government, Political Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Minorities Coverage
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Sports Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Photo Essay
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Business News/Features
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, Photo Essay
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, Business News/Feature
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, Cover Design
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, General News Reporting
SOUTH FLORIDA
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Impact Story
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Special/Focus Section
Florida Press Club, First Place, Hurricane
Coverage
Florida Press Club, First Place, Special Section
Florida Press Club, First Place, Photo Illustration
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Special
Section
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Photo
Illustration
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Business
Writing
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Environmental
Writing
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Feature
Writing
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Local Page
Design
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Artist Illustration
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Photo Illustration
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Feature Writing
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Health Writing
Sunshine State Awards, First Place, Business
Front Design
2007
ACBJ Eagle Award, Winner, Best Impact Story
ACBJ Eagle Award, Winner, Best Writing in a
Story, Editorial, or Column
ACBJ Eagle Award, Winner, Best Focus Section
ACBJ Eagle Award, Runner-up, Best Individual
Research Effort
Florida Press Club, First Place, Light Feature
Writing
Florida Press Club, First Place, Photo Illustration
Florida Press Club, First Place, Special Sections
Florida Press Club, First Place, Front Page
Design
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Lucy Morgan
Award
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Portrait/Personality Photography
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Feature Page
Design
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Serious Feature
Writing
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Health Writing
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Photo Illustration
American City BUSINESS JOURNALS
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Best in Business Project
ST. LOUIS
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Individual
Research Effort
Missouri Press Association, First Place, Best
Sports News Story or Package
Missouri Press Association, First Place, Best
Feature Story
Missouri Press Association, First Place, Community Service
Missouri Press Association, First Place, Best Ad
Idea or Promotion of the Newspaper
Missouri Press Association, First Place, Best
Photo Illustration
Missouri Press Association, First Place, Best
Information Graphics
Missouri Press Association, Second Place, Best
News Content
Missouri Press Association, Second Place, Best
Page Design
Missouri Press Association, Second Place, Best
Information Graphics
Missouri Press Association, Third Place, Best
Feature Photograph
Missouri Press Association, Third Place, Best
Online Newspaper
Missouri Press Association, Honorable Mention,
Best Newspaper Design
Missouri Press Association, Honorable Mention,
Best Feature Story
Missouri Press Association, Honorable Mention,
Best Coverage of Government
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Focus Section
Missouri Press Association, First Place, Best
Feature Photograph
Missouri Press Association, Second Place, Best
News Content
Missouri Press Association, Second Place, Best
Local Business Coverage
Missouri Press Association, Second Place, Best
Feature Story
Missouri Press Association, Second Place, Best
Newspaper Design
Missouri Press Association, Second Place, Best
Photo Illustration
Missouri Press Association, Third Place, Best
Photo Illustration
Missouri Press Association, Honorable Mention,
Best Coverage of Government
Missouri Press Association, Honorable Mention,
Best Information Graphics
STREET & SMITH’S
2006
Folio Magazine’s Eddy Awards, Silver Award
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Enterprise Award Winner
2007
Folio Magazine’s Eddy Awards, Silver Award,
Single Article
Folio Magazine’s Eddy Awards, Bronze Award,
Full Issue
Society of American Business Editors and
Writers, Certiﬁcate of Merit, Weekly Business
Newspaper
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TAMPA
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Web
Operation
Florida Press Association, First Place, Business
Writing
Florida Press Association, Second Place, Overall
Graphic Design
Florida Press Association, Second Place, Hurricane Coverage
Florida Press Association, Second Place,
Individual Graphic
Florida Press Association, honorable mention,
Feature Writing
Sunshine State Award, Second Place, Deadline
Business Reporting
Sunshine State Award, First Place, Non-deadline
Sports Reporting
Florida Press Club, First Place, Sports Writing
Florida Press Club, First Place, Online Publication
Florida Press Club, First Place, General News
Photography
Awards
Florida Press Club, First Place, Infographics
Florida Press Club, Second Place, General News
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Sports Writing
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Business Page
Design
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Local Page
Design
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Special Sections
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Special
Publication
IABC Tampa Bay Bronze Quill Award 2007
– General excellence
IABC Tampa Bay Bronze Quill Award 2007
– Online publication
Florida Press Club, First Place, Local Page
Design
Florida Press Club, Second Place, News Photo
Essay
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Online
Publication
Florida Press Club, Second Place, Infographics
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Business Writing
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Portrait/Personality Photography
Florida Press Club, Third Place, Special Sections
Florida Press Association, First Place, Serious
Column
Florida Press Association, First Place, Headlines
Florida Press Association, First Place, Special
Section
Florida Press Association, First Place, Newspaper Promotion
Florida Press Association, Second Place, Business Writing
Florida Press Association, Second Place, General
Excellence
Florida Press Association, Second Place, Web
Site Development
WHO WE ARE
Florida Press Association, Second Place, Front
Page Make-Up
Sunshine State Awards, SPJ – Third Place,
Special Publications
WASHINGTON
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, General Excellence
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall
Special/Focus Section
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Overall
Design
Society of American Business Editors and
Writers, Best in Business for 2005, Weekly
Publications
Society of American Business Editors and
Writers, Best in Business, Enterprise Reporting,
Weekly Publications
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Best in Business, Special Projects, Weekly
Publications
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Business News
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Arts and Criticism News/Features
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Government/Political Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Portrait Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Leisure and Lifestyle Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Cover Design
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Cartoons
Society of Professional Journalists, First Place,
Illustrations
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Personalities
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Portrait Photography
Society of Professional Journalists, Second
Place, Business News
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Sports Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Third Place,
Leisure and Lifestyle Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, General News Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, Honorable
Mention, Consumer/Environmental Affairs
Reporting
Society of Professional Journalists, 2006 Sweepstakes Award, Non-Daily Newspapers
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Special
Publication
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Best Overall Web
Operation
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Use of
Photography
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place,
Newspaper of the Year
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place, Best
in Show, News Page Design
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place, Spot
News
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place,
Political Enterprise
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WHAT WE VALUE
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place,
Growth & Development
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place,
Headline
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place,
Feature Page Design
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place, News
Page Design
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place, Sports
Page Design
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place, Art
or Illustration
MD-DE-DC Press Association, First Place, Web
Site
MD-DE-DC Press Association, Second Place,
Local Column
MD-DE-DC Press Association, Second Place,
Political Enterprise
MD-DE-DC Press Association, Second Place,
Special Section
MD-DE-DC Press Association, Second Place,
Page 1 Design
MD-DE-DC Press Association, Second Place,
News Page Design
MD-DE-DC Press Association, Second Place,
Informational Graphics
MD-DE-DC Press Association, Second Place, Art
or Illustration
MD-DE-DC Press Association, Second Place,
Medical/Science
WICHITA
2006
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Winner, Research Director
Kansas Press Association, Tied for Third Place,
Best Newspaper Website
Kansas Press Association, Honorable Mention,
Feature Story
Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Best in Business, Breaking News
2007
ACBJ Eagle Awards, Runner-up, Best Special
Publications
Kansas Press Association, Second Place, Design
and Layout Excellence
Kansas Press Association, Second Place, Series
Kansas Press Association, Second Place,
Government/Political Story
Kansas Press Association, Second Place, Special
Section
Kansas Press Association, Third Place,
Infographic
American City BUSINESS JOURNALS
WHO WE ARE
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WHAT WE VALUE
American City
BUSINESS JOURNALS
120 WEST MOREHEAD STREET
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CHARLOT TE, NC 28202
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704.973.1000