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Henry Dubroff is editor and publisher of Pacific Coast Business Times. He is the president and majority owner of the newspaper’s parent company, Pacific Coast Business Times Inc., which he founded in 1999.

Among financial journalists, Dubroff is known as one of the nation's leading experts in local business news operations. He was business editor of The Denver Post from 1988 until 1995 and he served as part of a management team that rescued The Post from near bankruptcy in one of the most successful turnarounds in the newspaper industry. From 1995 until 1999 he was editor of The Denver Business Journal, a weekly newspaper that covers business in Colorado’s fast-growing economy.

In 2000, he and his staff at the Business Times won a certificate of merit in the annual competition of the Society of American Business Editors & Writers Inc., based at the University of Missouri. 1999, he and his staff at The Denver Business Journal were awarded the Society of American Business Editors and Writers “Best In Business” award in the weekly business journal category. This marks the fourth time that business sections under his direction have won the coveted ward. . In 1997, The Denver Business Journal was a finalist for the Gerald R. Loeb awards in Business Journalism at UCLA.

Dubroff is a past president of SABEW and he co-chaired a successful effort to raise $1.1 million for an endowed chair in business journalism at the University of Missouri. He also serves as publisher of “The Business Journalist,” SABEWs professional journal. He was graduated from Lafayette College (1972) holds a master’s degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism (1982).

He is active in a number of professional and community organizations including Junior Achievement, the Central Coast Venture Forum, Ventura County Economic Development Association, UCSB Economic Forecast Project, Technology Advisory Board of California State University Channel Islands.