San Diego Business Journal


The San Diego Business Journal is a weekly newspaper in San Diego, California covering local business news. Each week, the San Diego Business Journal examines the economic news, demographics and lifestyle profiles of San Diego, and the many ways that the San Diego economy operates. An emailed daily news update is also available by free subscription.
Regular departments include Up Front, highlighting stories featuring San Diego businesses and their decision-makers; Media & Technology, focusing on changes and innovations in the businesses that serve these fields; Small Business, profiling those smaller businesses moving into the fore; and Investment and Finance, where San Diego’s many public companies are profiled and analyzed. One of the features is The List, which ranks the top businesses in any given industry. Some of the categories include Largest Private Companies, Fastest-Growing Private Companies, Highest Paid Executives, Highest Revenue Generators, Permanent Placement Services List, etc. Each of these surveys is then compiled into the San Diego Business Journal's resource – the annual Book of Lists.
Reo Carr is the executive editor of the San Diego Business Journal.

History

The San Diego Business Journal was established in 1980. In 1986, American City Business Journals acquired the SDBJ with the purchase of Scripps Howard Business Journals. In 1988, ACBJ sold the Los Angeles and San Diego Business Journals to a group led by Kansas City developer Larry Bridges.
Armon Mills was named publisher in 2004. In August 2016, Huntley Paton was announced as the new publisher and president of the journal, effective September 1, 2016. Barbara Chodos is currently the President & Publisher and Jay Harn is Editor in Chief - 2020.

Circulation

Tabloid: Weekly

Year Established: 1980

Audit: ABC, 2004

Total Circulation: 15,610; Qualified Paid: 8,517

Qualified Nonpaid: n/a; Non-Qualified: 7,093

Regional editions

It has regional editions in Orange County, the San Fernando Valley, and Los Angeles