Industry Publishing Products Online News Services Founded 1961 | Founder Ash Gerecht Website www.cdpublications.com Type of business Privately held | |
Key people Mike Gerecht, Publisher; Jim Rogers, Associate Publisher & Editorial Director Headquarters Silver Spring, Maryland, United States | ||
CD Publications began as a news service firm located just outside Washington DC, United States. The company produces Web-based "news services" (or newsletters) whose topics of coverage include housing, health care, education, funding, aging and Native Americans.
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Beginnings
CD Publications was founded in 1961 by Ash Gerecht of Kansas City, MO, and his wife, Gloria. The company was originally headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The first newsletter published was Housing Affairs Letter. It was followed by Community Development Digest (1965), Housing Market Report (1976), Managing Housing Letter (1978), Housing the Elderly (1982) and CD Housing Register (1983).
Expansion
In 1984, the company added senior affairs to its housing-related subjects with Aging News Alert. In 1986, coverage was expanded to include grant-seeking with Federal Assistance Monitor and business in 1987 with Minorities in Business Insider. New topics of coverage came in late 1998 when Youth Crime Alert and Workplace Discrimination Alert were founded.
In 2001, the company began a transition from print-only publications to Web-based online news services. This project was led by veteran newsletter executive Jim Rogers, formerly of Inside Washington Publishers and Phillips Business Information, who served as the company's Assistant Publisher and Editorial Director.
During the decade in which the transition project began, several publications were folded into other publications. For example, Minorities in Business Insider became part of Federal & Foundation Assistance Monitor, as did Youth Crime Alert and Workplace Discrimination Alert. Healthcare Disparities Report became part of Community Health Funding Report, as did Disabilities Funding Report and Substance Abuse Funding News. Other CD Publications news products include: Aging News Alert, Children and Youth Funding Report, Private Grants Alert, Native American Report, and Community Development Digest.
In February 2011, the company's oldest publication, Housing Affairs Letter, celebrated its 50th anniversary.
In December 2013, the Gerecht family relinquished ownership of the company, selling it to Eli Global Research of Durham, North Carolina. Today, the company operates as CD Publications Group, a division of Eli Global. Rogers continues to serve as its managing editor.
Acquisitions
In late 1996, LRP Publications (Hotsham, PA) sold Serving Elderly Clients, which CD Publications folded into the newly launched Senior Law Report. In late 1999, CD Pubs bought The Maturing Marketplace from Silver Spring-based Business Publishers, Inc., and folded it into Selling to Seniors, which at the time was edited by Allison Patterson. BPI then sold Federal Research Report in January 2001 (according to one report), which CD Pubs added to Federal Assistance Monitor. The company acquired Inside Housing from Housing Ink, also of Silver Spring, in mid-2001 and merged it into Housing Market Report, the report which also gained the readership of Construction News when that title was bought from Evans Publishing of Portland, Oregon, in December 2004.
In the second half of 2004, CD Publications acquired Health Grants & Contracts Weekly from LRP Publications of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and folded it into the twice-monthly Community Health Funding Report. In Fall 2006, the company acquired Native American Report and Native American Law Report from Eli Research and combined them into Native American Report. It also acquired Child Protection Report from the same group.
Sales, cancellations, internal mergers
In late 2006, Managing Housing Letter was merged with Landlord Law Report (est. 1998) to form Landlord Law & Multi-housing Report. Around the same time, Child Protection Report was folded into Children & Youth Funding Report, following an attempt to promote the former publication on its own.
In January 2007, Aid For Education Report, Disability Funding Report and Substance Abuse Funding News were converted to online-only publications in an attempt to lower costs and save them from cancellation. However, by mid year, DFN had been folded into SAF to create Substance Abuse & Disability Services Report, and AFE was folded into Federal Assistance Monitor (higher ed) and Children and Youth Funding Report (K-12). As part of the same deal in which the company acquired NAR and CPR, CD Publications sold Homeland Security Funding Report to Eli.
In September 2010, however, the company reprised its coverage of security-related issues with the creation of Public Safety Funding Report. One year later, that publication was folded into Community Development Digest.