American City Business Journals is an American newspaper chain based in Charlotte, North Carolina owned by Advance Publications. It has a range of media including 41 primary metropolitan weekly publications, which reach 4 million readers with business community related news, and Bizjournals, the online version of those newspapers. It also controls the Street & Smith's Sports Group, which publishes motorsports periodicals, as well as SportsBusiness Journal, SportsBusiness Daily, and five sports annuals; as well as The Sporting News and its radio subsidiary, Sporting News Radio. The company is the United States' leading publisher of NASCAR magazines.

The company also publishes specialty publications, which include a high-tech business newspaper, a law journal, and Hemmings Motor News. In 2009, ABCJ took over management of Portfolio.com, a website formerly associated with the now-defunct Condé Nast Portfolio.^{[citation needed]}

Mike Russell founded American City Business Journals. Ray Shaw, the company's chairman from 1989 until his 2009 death, bought a controlling interest along with a partner in 1989, selling to Advance Publications in 1995. It was Russell who suggested Shaw buy the entire company rather than just a few journals. Under Shaw's leadership, the company moved from Kansas City, Missouri to Charlotte and greatly increased the number of its publications.^[1]

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Bizjournals is the online media division of American City Business Journals which operates websites for each of the company's 41 print business journals as well as its first web-only local business news and information site for Los Angeles, California. The company plans to launch web-only operations in additional markets.

The site contains local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, along with an archive that contains more than 750,000 business news articles published since 1996. bizjournals' sites have more than 4 million unique visitors each month.

bizjournals also operates Bizapace.com, a Web site devoted to online commercial real estate listings across the U.S.

• Hemmings Motor News

bizjournals.com

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A Subscription to a Business Journal includes a yearly Book of Lists. The Book of Lists gives you essential information on the leading buyers, businesses and employers in over 60 of the U.S.'s most dynamic markets; a snapshot of local economies. You can receive lists of companies from around the country, sorted by industry. The Book of lists also includes names of key decision makers, along with their titles and complete contact information

Available lists include:

• Public Companies
• Largest Employers
• General Contractors
• Homebuilders
• Private Companies
• Law Firms

www.bizjournals.com/bookoflists/

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• Bizjournals
• Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal
• Hemmings Motor News