The Phoenix Business Journal has launched the Phoenix Business Blog, an outlet where reporters and other newsroom staff can follow breaking stories, give their take on the news and provide readers with more information and analysis of the Phoenix business community.
Entries will be posted daily, and a video component is in the planning stages. The blog can be found in the center of the Phoenix Business Journal’s homepage at phoenix.bizjournals.com. Continue reading
At a time when many newspapers are reporting record losses, the Phoenix Business Journal says it is bucking that trend. Its parent company, the American City Business Journals group, says its papers gained in paid circulation by 3.85 percent between 2005 and 2009, while daily newspapers in those same markets lost 18.81 percent in the same years. From 2007 to 2009 alone, the ACBJ circulation growth totaled 2.7 percent.
Nationally, ACBJ readers spend an average of 50 minutes reading their local business journal each week, according to media audits.
And through 2009, about 175,000 business leaders have attended business journal events across the country. Continue reading
