COLORADO SPRINGS — The owners of the Colorado Springs Independent announced today that they are buying the Colorado Springs Business Journal.
John Weiss, publisher of the Independent and head of the Publishing Corp. of Colorado Springs that is buying the Business Journal, said the papers would remain editorially independent, although he plans to look at consolidating back-office functions such as accounting.
“They have very different niches,” Weiss said. “We see them as two standalone products.”
Independent CEO Fran Zankowski and executive editor Ralph Routon will divide their time between the two papers, according to a press release on the sale, and Independent columnist John Hazlehurst will also write for the Business Journal, where he had a column for several years.
