Crain’s Detroit hires Pollock as audience engagement editor

Matt Pollock

Crain’s Detroit Business has hired Matt Pollock to be an audience engagement editor.

He starts on Monday.

Pollock is currently a news editor at the Lansing State Journal in Michigan. He previously spent seven and a half years at Chicago Magazine as a senior editor and associate editor for digital, and as an assistant editor and contributing music critic.

He also worked at Mic as a freelance music writer.

Pollock is a University of Michigan graduate.

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.