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Virginia Business sales manager named sales professional of year
Virginia Business won 12 awards in the Virginia Press Association‘s 2024 News & Advertising Contest, and Sales Manager Toni McCracken was named Outstanding Sales Professional of the Year, the state organization announced during an awards banquet held Saturday at the Omni Richmond Hotel. “Toni’s career in Virginia media sales is remarkable. She is a mentor, a […]
Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List
Who are Virginia’s most powerful and influential leaders in business, government, politics and education this year? Find out in the fifth annual edition of the Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List. Read more about how we assembled the Virginia 500 from our editor. Executives are listed in alphabetical order by industry. Below you will find links […]
A BridgeTower to the future
On July 31, Virginia Business turned the page on a new chapter in our 38-year history as the magazine became part of the BridgeTower Media family of companies. Headquartered in neighboring North Carolina, our new parent company is a portfolio company of Los Angeles private equity firm Transom Capital Group. BridgeTower owns 40-plus B2B media […]
Transom Capital-backed BridgeTower Media acquires Virginia Business to cover nation’s “Top State for Business”
LOS ANGELES and GREENSBORO, NC — BridgeTower Media, the authoritative source for business insights, data-driven marketing solutions and events across more than 40 media and research brands, is acquiring Virginia Business. Virginia Business is the only publication dedicated to covering economic activity in every sector and every region of the state of Virginia. More than […]
Virginia Business wins three national journalism awards
Virginia Business won three national journalism awards June 21, placing silver in three categories at The Alliance of Area Business Publishers’ (AABP) 2024 Editorial Excellence Awards ceremony, held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The magazine took home a silver award in the Best Magazine Cover Category for the November 2023 cover, an AI-generated photorealistic illustration of […]
Tegna announces new president and CEO
Michael Steib will succeed Tegna President and CEO David Lougee, who is retiring Aug. 12, Tysons-based broadcasting giant Tegna announced Monday. The 48-year-old Steib will also succeed Lougee as a member of the company’s board of directors. Lougee, age 65, will become a senior adviser. Lougee has been president and CEO and a director of […]
Pivot points
Earlier this year, when I was invited to speak to a Henrico County Rotary chapter, I was asked several questions commonly heard these days by journalists. Do sources pay us to appear in our magazine stories? No. As an independent media outlet, we are not pay-to-play; we decide who and what we write about and […]
Virginia Business wins 16 Va. Press Association awards
Virginia Business won 16 awards in the Virginia Press Association‘s 2023 News & Advertising Contest, the state organization announced Saturday. The annual contest recognizes excellence in design, writing, photography, illustrations and advertising in participating publications across Virginia for the previous calendar year. This year’s contest was judged by members of the Missouri [...]
Tegna expands contract with Comscore
Tysons-based Tegna, the nation’s largest owner of NBC-affiliate TV stations, has reached a multiyear deal with Reston-based Comscore, which will continue providing media metrics and audience measurement services across the broadcaster’s local TV, major affiliate and digital businesses, the companies announced Friday. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. With this expans[...]
Got news?
If you’ve been missing out on some local news events lately, it’s likely because local news is increasingly underreported. A report from the University of North Carolina found that between 2005 and 2020, the U.S. lost 2,100 — or roughly one-quarter — of its local community newspapers. Four years later, this trend toward “news deserts” […]
John ‘Dubby’ Wynne dies at 78
John O. “Dubby” Wynne only had one setting: giving 110%. He didn’t know how to do any less than that, even after years as a successful media executive who helped launch The Weather Channel, the 24-hour cable weather news channel. Instead of slowing down after his retirement as president and CEO after 27 years working […]
Media 2023: DOUG DAVIS
Davis brought with him more than a quarter-century of experience in the Virginia broadcast world when he stepped into the role of senior vice president and regional manager of Nexstar Media Group in 2017. His first broadcasting job in the region was at WVEC-TV, followed by stints as local sales manager of Norfolk’s WAVY-TV 10, […]
