| A lot can happen in 150 years. Banker & Tradesman has been in print for nearly a century and a half. In that time the newspaper has told the tales of market booms and busts, covered the cutting edge of real estate trends and watched the city of Boston grow great, sink low and rise again.
The intrepid staff of Banker & Tradesman and its sister publication, The Commercial Record, has reported the stories vital to the success of the finance, insurance and real estate industries, digging at the roots of economic issues and sharing the resolutions. All the while the staff has been shepherded by the Warren family, now in its fourth generation of ownership.
On a parallel track, the entire staff of The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman, has weathered the advent of the Internet and its related technology – and the resultant shattering of the status quo experienced by every other business in the world.
Newspapers have suffered in this new paradigm and the effects of technology on data-driven businesses have been nothing short of revolutionary. The Warren Group is both a media company and a data company. The changes to our industries – the ones we are, and the ones we cover – have been staggering in just the last 10 years.
Publish or perish, as they say in the academic world, and B&T refuses to perish. It took longer than we might have liked – and in some cases, longer than we had planned – but Banker & Tradesman is stepping up its game as another year comes rapidly to a close.
The new bankerandtradesman.com launched earlier this year and the response from readers has been overwhelmingly positive. The new commercialrecord.com will launch this week and we expect our Connecticut readers will be just as pleased.
If ever the direction of data-driven reporting was unclear, it’s a crystal ball now. Gone are the days of 2,000-word articles – our readers want up-to-date information in easy-to-understand formats. We hear you, readers! The Warren Group has the information you need to know, and one of the most recent staff additions is hard at work analyzing the vast stores of our data to bring to light the stories that matter to you.
As a result, the relationship between the data team and the editorial staff is now closer than ever. That partnership brought you Laura Alix’s in-depth look at the effects of CitiBank’s departure from Massachusetts (see front page), and the enthusiastic collaboration of the creative department brought it all to life.
There’s a lot more in store later this year and into next. Whether you get your news from Banker & Tradesman in print, online, via our social media channels or by attending our events, stay tuned for more of what we do best, as we do our best to do it even better.
