Syracuse, N.Y. — The Central New York Business Journal will be shutting down.
The president of the long-time, family-owned news publication announced today that this issue is the last one and the business will be winding down its operations over the coming weeks.
“While this chapter is coming to a close, the impact of the Business Journal and my father’s legacy will continue through the businesses, leaders, and communities it helped inform and connect,” wrote Marny Nesher, president and owner of the Central New York Business Journal.
Nesher’s father, Norm Poltenson founded the Central New York Business Journal in 1986.
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’s website.
Poltenson died in 2021 at the age of 81.
The business events side of the publication, called BizEventz, shut down at the end of last month.
The business journal employs about a dozen people, including BizEvents.
The journal also publishes articles on business news in the Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley, which it distributes through email subscriptions.
BizEventz, the marketing arm of the publication, ran several popular local events, including “40 Under 40.” This would have been the 40th year of that event.
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.
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’s space.
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.
In her letter to the community, which Nesher dedicated to her father, she gave no reason for why the publication was shutting down.
“To the Central New York business community, our loyal advertisers, subscribers, partners, trusted advisors, and readers, thank you for the trust you placed in us and for the relationships we built over the years. It was a privilege to serve you,” Nesher wrote.
