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Editor, Brad Kane,
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Digital Editor, Grant Welker,
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Staff Writers
Laura Finaldi, lfinaldi@wbjournal.com
(Manufacturing, higher education)
Emily Micucci,
emicucci@wbjournal.com (Health care)
Contributors
Susan Shalhoub
Livia Gershon
Research Director,
Stephanie Meagher,
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Research Assistant, Heide Martin,
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Production Director, Kira Beaudoin,
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Associate Art Director,
Mitchell Hayes,
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Senior Accounts Manager
Matt Majikas,
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Custom Publishing Project Manager
Christine Juetten,
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Senior Special Accounts Manager
Mary Lynn Bosiak,
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Marketing & Events Manager
Kris Prosser, kprosser@wbjournal.com
Sales & Events Intern
Eric Goudreau,
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COO, Mary Rogers,
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Accounting Manager, Valerie Clark,
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Accounting Assistant, Rae Rogers,
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Collections Manager, Raki Zwiebel,
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Human Resources, Kim Vautour,
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Publisher, CEO, Peter Stanton
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Associate Publisher, Mark Murray
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President, Joseph Zwiebel
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A
bout three months after I start-
ed as WBJ editor in September
2015, we started looking at a
redesign of this print publica-
tion. This would be the biggest change to
WBJ in about a decade, as we modernized
our style to our audience's preferences.
Associate Art Director Mitchell Hayes
spearheaded the effort – with myself and
Publisher Peter Stanton throwing in our
ideas probably too frequently for his tastes
– and on Sept. 26, we unveiled the design
you now see in this issue.
On June 24, our industry association –
the Alliance of Area Business Publishers
– named WBJ its best designed business
journal in the small newspaper category,
honoring Hayes with the Gold Award for
Best Overall Design. The redesign had
been warmly received by our readership,
and we didn't necessarily need an award
to validate the change; but it sure was
nice to be honored in a room full of our
peers – 43 publications in the United
States, Canada and Australia.
AABP even named us the third best
overall small newspaper in the country,
among six awards WBJ received this year,
which is the most we've won in any year. I
was slightly less ecstatic about the third
place finish in the overall category, since
we won second last year. Yet, being third
among the AABP publications is quite the
honor; and second place went deservingly
to our sister publication MaineBiz.
For our four other awards:
• Staff Writer Laura Finaldi won two
Silver Awards for Best Explanatory
Journalism for her story on the 2016
Massachusetts energy bill called and for
Best Local Coverage of a National
Economic Story for her story about how
immigrants impact the Worcester.
• Former WBJ Digital Editor Sam
Bonacci won the Gold Award for Best
Scoop for his breaking news coverage of
the drastic economic downturn the
Greendale Mall had taken.
• The entire WBJ staff won the Gold
Award for Best Ancillary Publication for
the special supplement "A Guide to
STUFF Made in Massachusetts" which
focuses on the Central Massachusetts
manufacturing industry.
Like I said, awards aren't necessary to
The best designed business journal
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A division of:
NEWS & ANALYSIS
DEPARTMENTS
4 Central Mass. In Brief
5 Flash Poll
12 Focus on Law
16 The List: Top law firms
18 Know How
19 On the Move
20 Photo Finish
21 Opinion
22 Shop Talk: Ed Russo, Lock 50
8 A $24M development, 111 years
in the making
WinnDevelopment, creator of the Voke
Lofts and Canal Lofts in Worcester, has
taken its talents to a former Fitchburg
textile mill
17 Old meats new
A new Water Street restaurant/butcher/deli
seeks to bring an old-fashioned concept to
an up-and-coming neighborhood
I N T H I S I S S U E
Worcester Business Journal
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Knowledge +
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It all adds up.
Large enough to serve the
needs of most businesses
and individuals; small
enough to offer the
personal attention you
expect and deserve.
Greenberg, Rosenblatt, Kull & Bitsoli, PC
Certified Public Accountants
306 Main Street, Suite 400 • Worcester, MA 01608
508.791.0901 • www.grkb.com
let us know we are moving in the right
direction, but the AABP awards let me
now say what I have long felt: In these
pages, as in every print issue and digital
story, you are consuming one of the best
business journals in the country.
- Brad Kane, editor
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