Orange County Business Journal

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The Orange County Business Journal

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format

Owner	CBJ LP
Publisher	Richard Reisman
Editor	Michael Lyster
Founded	1978
Headquarters	2600 Michelson Drive, Ste. 170, Irvine, CA 92612 United States.
Circulation	23,000

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 has a circulation of about 23,000 and is the second largest business journal in California after the Los Angeles Business Journal, which has a circulation of 30,000.^[1]

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.^[1]

1 Content
- 1.1 Special publications
- 1.2 Online media
2 Affiliations
3 Events
4 History
5 References

[edit] Content

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

[edit] Special publications

Each year, the editorial department of the Orange County Business Journal publishes 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 a Book of Lists, identifying the top firms in Orange County in over 50 industry groups.

[edit] Online media

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Events

The Orange County Business Journal holds four events per year, including:

Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards - March
Women in Business Awards - May
Fast Growing Private Companies Awards - September
Family Owned Business Awards - November

[edit] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.