Orange County Business Journal

The Orange County Business Journal

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Type	Weekly newspaper
Owner	CBJ LP
Publisher	Richard Reisman
Editor	Jerry Sullivan
Founded	1978
Headquarters	18500 Von Karman, Ste. 150, Irvine, CA 92612 United States.
Circulation	20,152[1] (2011)
Official website	http://www.ocbj.com/

The Orange County Business Journal is a weekly print and online newspaper covering business in Orange County, California. The paper is the second largest business journal in California after the Los Angeles Business Journal.^[2]

The Orange County Business Journal is among the largest business journals in the country, in league with Crain’s Chicago Business, the Los Angeles Business Journal, the San Francisco Business Times, Atlanta Business Chronicle and the Boston Business Journal.^[2]

Content

The Orange County Business Journal covers information on various industries, including the technology, medical device, aerospace, defense, surfwear, real estate, and finance sector.

Special publications

The editorial department of the Orange County Business Journal publishes over 50 reference lists within the paper, identifying the top firms in Orange County, plus a list of the most influential business people in the county (the OC50) and a list of the wealthiest people (OC’s Wealthiest). At the end of each year, the Business Journal publishes their flagship Book of Lists, a compilation of all the lists that have run during the year.

The Orange County Business Journal also publishes 40+ special reports, produced by the award-winning editorial department, and 50 advertising supplements. The special reports, lists and supplements are all located within the pages of the paper.

Online media

The Journal's web site contains over a dozen video interviews of business executives in Orange County.

Affiliations -

The Orange County Business Journal is owned by CBJ, L.P., which also owns other Business Journals in Los Angeles, San Diego and the San Fernando Valley.

Regional editions

• Orange County Business Journal
• Los Angeles Business Journal
• San Diego Business Journal
• San Fernando Business Journal

Events

The Orange County Business Journal holds four events per year:

• CFO of the Year Awards - January
• Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards - March
• Women in Business Awards - June
• General Counsel Awards - September
• Family Owned Business Awards - November

History

In 1978, Marsha Feldman (later Marengo) started the paper as the Business Community Journal. In 1980, she changed the name to the Orange County Business Journal. The paper was bought over by its current owner: CBJ, L.P. Publisher Richard Reisman and Editor Rick Reiff, now the paper’s executive editor and a Pulitzer Prize recipient, joined soon after, leading a period of rapid growth for the paper.^[3][4]

In 2000, Michael Lyster, the paper’s former technology reporter, returned from Investor Business Daily to become the editor of the Orange County Business Journal. The paper's current editor is Jerry Sullivan, the Orange County Business Journals's former managing editor.

References

1. ^ ABC
2. ^ ^{a b} June 2006 Audit Bureau of Circulations, retrieved 2007-08-03
3. ^ General News Reporting 1987 - Akron Beacon Journal, lead reporter
4. ^ Rothmyer, Karen. Winning Pulitzers, Columbia University Press (1991), Page 9

• Chapman University Center for Economic Research, Chapman University, 2006 Chapman University Economic Forecast/College of Business and Economics Cal State Fullerton
• EDD Labor Market Division, California Department of Finance, US Bureau of the Census
• US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Wills, Kendall J. (1988). The Pulitzer Prizes, 1987. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780671659561. http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzer-Prizes-1987/dp/0671659561/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234468087&sr=1-4. 

External links

Los Angeles portal

• Orange County Business Journal