Cincinnati PR

The Cincinnati Business Courier is losing one of its best. And one of the most influential positions in the Greater Cincinnati media market is open.

Andrea Tortora, Managing Editor, is leaving town soon for Peoria, Illinois, where her husband Bob Schwartz works as a Judge. She is vacating a position under current Editor Rob Daumeyer and Publisher Doug Bolton that wields tremendous influence on published content.

The news, for many, arrived via a Sept. 9 Facebook posting in which Tortora announced her Clifton home was for sale through Comey & Shepherd.

The Tortora Clifton castle is being listed through Realtor Cynthia Andrews with Comey & Shepherd. Cynthia can be reached at (513) 519-9410 or candrews@comey.com.

The 10-room, four-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath split-level on Berkshire Lane is being marketed for $255,000.

The native New Yorker is a longtime journalism professional who worked at the Cincinnati Enquirer as an Education reporter for five years between 1996-2001 before taking a job at the Business Courier in 2001. She’s been Managing Editor since 2004.

As Managing Editor, Tortora ranked No. 2 in the BizCourier newsroom pecking order, behind Daumeyer.

She supervised the daily reporting activities of Senior Reporter Lucy May, Senior Reporter and Downtown Parking Watchdog Dan Monk, as well as Reporters James Ritchie, Steve Watkins and Jon Newberry, Online Managing Editor Lisa Benson, Senior Editor/Researcher Gigi Verna, Associate Editor/Researcher Jeanelle Collett, Design Editor Kristin Davenport, Editorial Cartoonist and Zinzinnati BierBand Enthusiast Joe “Don’t Call It a Comeback” Hoffecker.

An Ohio University graduate, Andrea covered Health Care with a vengeance at the Business Courier, before being promoted to Managing Editor. Tortora has been heavily involved in philanthropic pursuits outside the newsroom, most notably with Dress for Success.

Tortora’s professional highlights from her LinkedIn page:

• More than 13 years of experience in the journalism industry, with a primary focus on print and Web media, and some experience in radio and TV;

• Keen interest in women’s leadership issues;

• Enjoy serving on community boards;

• Currently a member of the Duke Energy Children’s Museum Advisory Board, the Dress for Success board and the Jewish Early Learning Cooperative board;

• Past board member of the Cincinnati chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ);

• Enjoy teaching others about journalism. Frequent speaker to public relations and industry groups, as well as schools;

• Adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati, advanced reporting classes.

There’s an online listing for the Clifton home on the Comey website at: http://www.candrews.comey.com/displaylist.asw?listnum=1238397&mls=mls_cincy.

Colleagues at the Business Courier have organized an Oct. 16 party to wish Andrea bon voyage – aptly entitled “Farewell Tour-Tortora.”

Tortora is one of the best, a highly personable individual with impeccable professional credentials.

Best of luck, Andrea. Godspeed on the next chapter of your journey, and raising those two beautiful boys.

Hopefully this post will help you move that home …. as you and your colleagues have so dutifully reported, I hear real estate is tough:

http://www.infocushometours.com/Listings/a00f020d-8bfd-4106-88cc-1443d1b50a04/ifhtslideshow.aspx

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> UPDATE AT 9:39 a.m. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Andrea will remain with the Business Courier in a part-time capacity, working on a remote platform as Projects Editor.