First, there are more stories in each edition than we can display on the Web site. Our staff writers are covering beats as diverse as autos, banking, construction, energy and the environment, health care, insurance, commercial real estate, and manufacturing, to name a few. With over 30 assigned beats, we pack each issue with the news business owners and managers need.

Second, The Business Journal includes Special Reports in each issue. Each report is designed to explore a subject in depth, giving the reader a big-picture understanding of the subject. The Special Reports also allow our writers to explain industry trends and their potential impact on your business.

Third, the print edition is packed with research about area businesses. Every issue contains at least one Top-Ranks list, ranking the major players in each industry by various criteria, like revenue, number of employees, number of professionals, fleet size, productivity, and square footage. The information contained in the lists is reviewed by our research director from hundreds of detailed questionnaires sent by The Business Journal.

Fourth, every print edition contains a focus page on technology. Technology includes news capsules of current events, a review of a local Web site, and a story about cutting-edge technology in the area. We highlight technology because it is so important to the development of the area and because things are changing so rapidly.

Fifth, The Business Journal rotates a number of columnists, who write about subjects like sales and marketing, pensions, entrepreneurship, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, and information technology. Each column is selected to bring the reader information to run his/her business better or to look beyond the day-to day operations to the strategic plan.

Sixth, no paper is complete without an opinion section. The Business Journal boasts a two-page feature each week that includes the editor's opinion, op-ed pieces by our readers and outside writers, and letters to the editor. The Business Journal takes a consistently pro-business position. We promote regional economic development as the engine to "grow" our area.