Business Insurance Shuts Down After 49 Years

Crain Communications has ceased operations of its Business Insurance publication, the company announced this week, citing declining revenue from print advertising. The publication’s final print edition was the Aug. 1 issue; the last day for the businessinsurance.com website was Monday. Business Insurance, launched in 1967, covered news about the commercial insurance industry. But shifts in the industry that began in 2008, including consolidations, contributed to the publication's struggle to diversify its revenue from dependence on a declining base of print adve...