Local business newsrooms across many US metros
We build the story and the press record that make coverage in The Business Journals plausible, and we tell you honestly whether your market and your news are strong enough. We do not sell placements here.
The Business Journals is an established US business-news network made up of individual titles serving metro markets across the country, each with its own newsroom. Reporters cover the companies, deals, property, hiring and people in their own city, alongside national business coverage.
Local business reporting is read closely by the people who actually do business in your city: lenders, brokers, buyers, recruiters and competitors. Coverage is a newsroom decision, which is exactly why it is taken seriously by that readership.
Best for: Companies with a real presence in a US metro.
Reporting here is done by staff journalists in each metro newsroom, so coverage is an editorial decision and not something anyone can sell you. There is no contributor programme that converts a fee into a newsroom byline, and a guaranteed placement at a title with its own reporters should be read as information about the seller rather than the publication. Advertising, events and sponsorship are separate commercial products, bought at media rates and labelled accordingly. The realistic route is earned: a reporter who covers your beat in your city decides your business belongs in a story they are writing. That is what we work toward, by developing the angle, preparing what a reporter needs in order to verify it, and taking it to the right desk in the right market.
The unit of interest is the local market, so the story has to matter to the city rather than to your company. What lands is commercial and checkable: a building you are moving into, hiring numbers in a metro where hiring is already a story, a contract or a raise with local consequence, a sector shift a reporter can see in their own patch. Give them something they can verify without knowing you, such as a filing, a permit, a named partner or a figure with a period attached. It sits in the property, banking, technology or growth coverage of a single metro title. National ambition with no local footprint is the most common reason a pitch here goes nowhere.
Tell us the story in a sentence. We reply within 24 hours and we will say plainly whether The Business Journals is realistic for you, and which route it would take.
We develop your story, write the feature to editorial standard, and manage the placement. You approve every word before anything goes live.
Yes. It is a genuine article published on the outlet, written about you and your work — not an ad you design yourself.
Most placements take weeks rather than days. We give you a realistic timeline for The Business Journals before we start, and never promise a date we cannot control.
You review and revise until it is right. Nothing publishes without your approval.