Nesher\u2019s father, Norm Poltenson founded the Central New York Business Journal in 1986. <\/p>\n
Poltenson ran the operation until 2014, when he sold it to Nesher, his daughter. Poltenson continued working for the journal, writing about the Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley, according to the journal\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Poltenson died in 2021 at the age of 81. <\/p>\n
The business events side of the publication, called BizEventz, shut down at the end of last month. <\/p>\n
The business journal employs about a dozen people, including BizEvents.<\/p>\n
The journal also publishes articles on business news in the Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley, which it distributes through email subscriptions.<\/p>\n
BizEventz, the marketing arm of the publication, ran several popular local events, including \u201c40 Under 40.\u201d This would have been the 40th year of that event. <\/p>\n
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After almost 40 years of publication, the independet, family-owned Central New York Business Journal will cease publishing online. Its business arm, BizEventz, also is shutting down.Screenshot<\/p>\n
Hints of trouble at The Central New York Business Journal became public earlier this month, when the publication posted on its site that it was canceling the 2026 Nonprofit Awards. <\/p>\n
The Business Journal also moved out of space it had long-occupied in the WCNY building on West Fayette Street recently. WCNY is advertising for someone else to take the journal\u2019s space. <\/p>\n
Nesher and her husband, Raviv, both work for the family business. Raviv ran circulation, according to the website. The couple sold their home in Central New York and moved out of state in 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syracuse, N.Y. \u2014 The Central New York Business Journal will be shutting down. The president of the long-time,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":544331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,239788,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-544330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-fromcd-20070626","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115962088286438497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}