Outlet profile

BizTimes

U.S. pro-business, regional

Owned byIndependently owned by founder Dan Meyer and his wife Kate Meyer; no parent company

FundingMix of print and digital subscriptions, local advertising and sponsored content, and revenue from roughly a dozen annual business events

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Dan Meyer founded the outlet in January 1995 as Small Business Times after leaving his position as advertising director at the Milwaukee Business Journal. It was later rebranded BizTimes and has grown into a multi-platform media company producing a bi-weekly print magazine, daily and weekly e-newsletters, a website, and roughly thirteen signature events per year that together draw more than 6,500 attendees annually. The company remains independently and family-owned, positioning itself as the only regional business media company dedicated exclusively to southeastern Wisconsin. BizTimes has won more than fifty awards from the Milwaukee Press Club and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers over the past decade, covering beats such as real estate, economics, legal affairs, and the Foxconn project. Editorially, commentary has generally favored pro-development positions — such as supporting hotel construction in the Deer District and easing housing regulations — without aligning with a national partisan line. No significant editorial controversies have been publicly documented. Coverage of the second Trump administration has remained focused on measurable effects on Wisconsin employers and workers rather than taking a clear supportive or oppositional stance.

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Profile compiled 2026-09-17; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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