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Crain’s Chicago hires two new reporters

Michael Weinraub and Rachel Herzog

Crain’s Chicago Business has hired two new members to its reporting team.

Mark Weinraub, a 27-year career financial journalist, now covers banking and finance for Crain’s. Weinraub, a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, has spent the bulk of his career writing about commodities, agriculture, Chicago’s futures exchanges, government and other industries for Reuters.

Weinraub, 49, worked in the agency’s Washington and New York bureaus before moving to the Chicago office in 2006.

Meanwhile, Rachel Herzog joins Crain’s award-winning real estate reporting team, where she will work alongside veterans Danny Ecker and Dennis Rodkin. Herzog, 28, comes to Crain’s from The Real Deal, where she has covered commercial real estate in Chicago since June 2022.

Prior to The Real Deal, Herzog wrote for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, where she started in 2017 as a web reporter before being promoted to city government reporter, and later to the statehouse beat. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a bachelor’s degree in media and journalism, as well as a separate degree in Hispanic literature and culture.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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