Crain’s Chicago promotes Brumback to managing editor

Aly Brumback

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.

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.