WIFT TX: SPEAKER SERIES – 2025
“STATE OF THE TEXAS MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY”
ED ARNOLD
Editor-in-Chief, San Antonio Business Journal
San Antonio, Texas
SPEAKER – WIFT TX: SPEAKER SERIES 2025 – “STATE OF THE TEXAS MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY”
Ed Arnold is the editor in chief of the San Antonio Business Journal, where he leads the newsroom’s print and digital coverage along with its audience and engagement strategies. A veteran of American City Business Journals, Arnold stepped into the top editorial role in 2022 after serving five years as the publication’s managing editor, where he played a pivotal role in reshaping the newsroom and strengthening its impact on the city’s fast-growing business community.
A Madison, Georgia native, Arnold began his career with ACBJ in 2012 as an editorial intern at the Memphis Business Journal. He went on to serve four years there as digital producer and social engagement manager before moving to San Antonio.
Arnold is a graduate of the University of Memphis and a passionate advocate for responsive, community-driven business journalism.
Outside the newsroom, Arnold’s life is centered on family. He and his wife, Ashley, an elementary school teacher at St. George Episcopal School, are raising two daughters: Emily, a recent graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Caroline, a high school student at the North East School of the Arts.
“It’s been a lifelong ambition to lead a newsroom like this one at a time like this. The city’s business community is changing at a breakneck pace, and I’m honored to help tell its story.”