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Updated: October 28, 2024 WBJ 35th Anniversary special edition

Slideshow: Our favorite covers from the last 35 years

A cover of a business magazine from April 1990 The first issue of WBJ from April 1990 highlighted the white elephant that was the Worcester Galleria.
Magazine cover of apples close up WBJ's Fact Book from 1991
A business magazine made to look like a box of Wheaties This Wheaties-themed cover dates back to December 1991.
WBJ's advertising & media guide from 1992, featuring what is either a very small man or some very large office supplies.
A business magazine cover featuring a cowgirl with a smoking gun and a cigarillo in her mouth This creative cover highlighting Central Massachusetts business mavericks dates back to the winter of 1997.
In 1999, Central Massachusetts businesses were busy preparing for the Y2K bug tech disaster that never came to be as WBJ was busy working on its Book of the Millennium.
A magazine cover featuring a man in business attire looking through binoculars with maps imprinted on the lenses. WBJ's Economic Forecast for 2004, a year that saw the Worcester Galleria demolished.
WBJ produced this guide to the Central Massachusetts economy in 2008.
A 1940s-era P-51 Mustang fighter plane that was then part of the Stow-based Collings Foundation graced the cover of WBJ's 2011 Book of Lists.
WBJ always aims to have a creative photo for the cover of its annual Forty Under 40 edition, and 2019 was no exception.
A business magazine cover showing an image of a virus up close It should come as no surprise that the global COVID-19 pandemic was the topic of discussion for WBJ's Central Mass Health magazine in the spring of 2020.
As protests over the murder of George Floyd and other racial injustices rocked the country in the summer of 2020, WBJ examined the racial gap in Worcester County's business scene.
WBJ took a closer look at one of the region's most important industries in the spring of 2023 with its Central MA Life Sciences Report.
A business magazine cover This cover from July 2023 provides a visual representation of the potential impact of the removal of affirmative action on the diversity of the region's workforce.

They say you can't judge a book by its cover. But newspapers — what choice do you have? Here are some of the best, most interesting, most important, most impactful — and hopefully most enjoyable — Worcester Business Journal covers over the last 35 years, starting with the first one.

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