20 Facts about the Sacramento Business Journal

1. For more than 33 years, the Sacramento Business Journal has served and connected the business communities in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties.

2. In fact, the Journal printed their first Sacramento issue on December 17, 1984.

3. Far from just a printed weekly newspaper, the Sacramento Business Journal offers a myriad of forms to share information and interact with their audience. In fact, the ‘Journal includes a website, a great PDF digital edition, daily email updates and Morning Roundup Emails, fantastic events and an active social media presence. 

4. They’re also well known for their highly anticipated regular special editions. The Business Journal publishes a popular annual Top List series that highlights the best of the best in businesses, organizations, and individuals in the Sacramento business world, and other community and networking events.

5. They’re printed newspaper reaches 70,000 readers, business leaders, and community stalwarts every week.

6. Likewise, their social media accounts and online editions attract tens of thousands more followers.

7. The offices of the ‘Journal are located at Plaza 555 at 555 Capitol Mall in downtown Sacramento.

8. While many of their articles are posted online at http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento.

9. It is a subscription site, but it's well worth it in my opinion because you’ll receive enhanced content, special interviews, expanded lists, and digital editions of the Book of Lists and other downloadable content.

10. However, a free account will still get you access to most weekly article content, and as well as an incredible series of tips and training that should be in any marketer’s toolbag. You’ll also be able to read about when our business leaders change companies or careers, and other important developments.

11. I suggest their daily email updates for busy business leaders on-the-go, with breaking headlines from 17 industries and complete market and economic listings. You can easily customize what kind of content and stories appear in your daily email.

12. Far from a local and independent start-up, the Sacramento Business Journal is a product of their national parent company, American City Business Journals (ACBJ). This media umbrella is actually the largest publisher of metropolitan business weekly news sources in the country.

13. Based out of Charlotte, NC, the ACBJ includes 43 business publications in cities around the nation similar to the Sac Biz Journal, with a total readership of about 3.6 million (more than 1% of the U.S. population) every week!

14. One of the best features from the Sacramento Business Journal is their highly anticipated awards, dished out each year to Sacramento's top movers and shakers in the form of their special lists.]

15. Some of Sactown’s favorite include:

Sac Biz Journal 40 under40

Fastest Growing Companies

People on The Move

Women Who Mean Business 2017

Best Places to Work

You can see all of the Biz Journal lists here.

16. ou can order a Book of Lists, or, in an amazing feature, start your own list with the Business Journal online!

17. The Sacramento Business Journal benefits from some sage and serious leadership. That includes David Lichtman as Publisher (dlichtman@bizjournals.com), Editor-in-Chief Adam Steinhauer (asteinhauer@bizjournals.com), and Managing editor Sam Boykin (sboykin@bizjournals.com)

18. Would you like to notify the Journal of an award, employee milestone or offer recognition to someone – or yourself? You can find their submission form on their website: fill out the form (but you’ll need an account)

19. Do you have a good topic for an article you’d like to see or a story idea? Contact the Journal here: fill out the form (with an account).

20. To follow them on Facebook, go to: https://www.facebook.com/SacBiz/

and their Twitter handle is @SacBiz 

Or, you can give them a call at (916) 447-7661 or send an email to socialsacramento@bizjournals.com

20 Things you probably didn't know about The Sacramento Bee newspaper.

The Sacramento Bee daily newspaper is synonymous with the history of the capital city and the region, itself. For those of us who live in Sacramento or surrounding areas, the presence of the Bee is so familiar that we might not give it a second thought anymore. But in fact, The Sacramento Bee is one of the nation’s most venerable, prolific, and trusted news publications. As a tip of our cap to say “thank you” for many decades of service, here are 20 things you probably didn't know about our beloved Sacramento Bee!

1. The Sacramento Bee was founded way back in 1857, amid the Gold Rush and California’s first widespread settling.

2. It was originally called “The Daily Bee” when the first issue was published on February 3, 1857.

3. But the paper that we now know as the paper that dominates Sacramento had some stiff competition from the start. In fact, the Sacramento Union was the established paper in town, founded six years earlier in 1851. The Union and the Bee competed for Sacramento readers until 1994, when the Union closed its doors.

4. The Sacramento Bee is now the largest newspaper in Sacramento, the fifth largest in California, and the 27^th largest newspaper in the United States.

5. The Bee has a daily readership of about 553,192 and 666,458 on Sundays. Between the printed and online editions, The Bee reaches 39.5% of adults in the Sacramento region every day and 45.9% of all adults each Sunday.

6. It now has a circulation that covers from the northern Sacramento valley south to Stockton, north to Redding, east to Reno, and west to the Bay Area, spanning about 12,000 square miles!

7. An editorial in that first edition stated, “The object of this newspaper is not only independence, but permanence." After more than 150 years of publication, we can safely assume they’ve achieved both. In fact, the Bee hasn’t missed a single scheduled edition in those 150+ years of circulation!

8. The Daily Bee made a big splash on the Sacramento scene very quickly. Only four days into its inception, the paper exposed a scandal when they discovered that $200,000 in state funds was missing, leading to the impeachment of the California state treasurer.

9. An Irish immigrant named James McClatchy made his mark on The Daily Bee after coming west to California to look for gold in 1949, instead becoming the paper’s chief writer and editor and eventually owning up to half of the company.

10. James McClatchy passed away in 1883, but his two sons, (C.K.) and Valentine Stuart (V.S.) McClatchy picked up the reins to continue the family newspaper business, becoming respected journalists and owners.

11. So why is it called ‘The Bee?’ Basically, the paper promised to be as busy as a bee in working to report the news. An editorial in the very first edition read, "The name of The Bee has been adopted as being different from that of any other paper in the state and as also being emblematic of the industry which is to prevail in its every department."

Original Bee newspaperman James McClatchy used a picture of a bee on his business stationary, and in 1901, his son ordered a tile mosaic of the a bee put up in the lobby of their office at 911 Seventh St.

12. The Sacramento bee is the most prevalent publication in the stable of 30 daily and 50 non-daily papers owned by The McClatchy Company, the third largest newspaper company in the U.S. with more than 3.2 million papers hot off the presses each day.

13. Over the many decades of service, The McClatchy Company’s papers have won 73 highly esteemed Pulitzer Prizes among hundreds of other awards.

14. The Sacramento Bee won five of those Pulitzer Prizes. The first Pulitzer came in 1935 for Public Service when the Bee exposed political manipulation of the federal judiciary in Nevada, and the latest came in 2007 for gold medal photography. 

15. The Sacramento Bee’s logo and namesake character is a bee called Scoopy (for a newspaper “scoop”, and was actually designed by The Walt Disney Company.

16. At the time, Disney didn’t take on outside commercial work, but Eleanor McClatchy – wife of owner James McClatchy - made a special request because she wanted a logo that would "lend personality and a familiar identity to all the products" of the company.

17. The Disney Company agreed on the condition that Eleanor donate $1500 to the Army Relief Fund and created two cartoon figures that were printed in the Bee on September 4, 1943: a bee named Scoopy (for the newspaper) and one named Gaby to represent the radio station.

18. On February 3, 2007, the Bee celebrated its 150^th anniversary, commemorating the milestone by including a copy of the original edition, as well as a 120-page section about its history.

19. Throughout its history, the Sacramento Bee has distinguished itself as a champion of progressive causes, such as environmental protection and advocacy, promoting free speech, transparency and right-conduct in government, pro-unionization and worker’s rights, and anti-racism.

20. Now run by Publisher and President Cheryl Dell, The Sacramento Bee offices sit at 2100 Q St. in the building that was one the Buffalo Brewery.