''BizWest'' is a print and

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History

In 2010,

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, the owner of the newspapers ''Boulder County Business Report'' and ''Northern Colorado Business Report'' declared bankruptcy and, in September, sold them to

Ohio Community Media Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of Ohio. It was headquartered in the Dayton suburb of Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Ma ...

. In February 2011, the publishers of the two papers formed BizWest Media to acquire their publications, the ''Wyoming Business Report'', and ancillary other assets from Ohio Community Media. In March 2014, the ''Boulder County Business Report'' and ''Northern Colorado Business Report'' were merged into a biweekly printed paper called ''BizWest'', with initial circulation of 9,000 to cover

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, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties, as well as the Denver-Boulder corridor. In September 2016, ''BizWest'' reduced its print publication frequency to monthly and laid off four of its eighteen staff, including one writer. The company cited subscribers shifting to digital-only subscriptions and management's desire to focus on growth areas of the business as reasons for the changes.

References

External links

BizWest website
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