Crain’s Chicago promotes Brumback to managing editor

Crain’s Chicago Business assistant managing editor Aly Brumback has been promoted to managing editor.

She joined Crain’s Chicago in March 2022. Since that time, Brumback has overhauled the newsroom’s audience engagement strategies, driving double-digit traffic growth across the website, newsletters and social media.

As managing editor, she supervises the entire newsroom, working with reporters, editors and graphics staffers, as well as the audience team.

Before joining Crain’s sister publication Modern Healthcare as an audience specialist in August 2021, Brumback was a 10-year veteran of the Chicago Tribune, where she started as a national content copy editor and page designer before becoming part of the newspaper’s audience team.

She is a graduate of Ball State University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in journalism.