Longtime business journalist Charles Crumpley has been named editor in chief of Billionaire Reporter.
A startup, Billionaire Reporter covers America’s billionaires the same way that Hollywood Reporter covers the entertainment industry.
Crumpley is a former Los Angeles Business Journal editor-in-chief. He had also been publisher and editor of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal, a sister publication.
He began his career as a reporter and eventually became a senior writer for the Kansas City Star, where he won several national honors including an Overall First Place Award, a kind of grand prize, from the National Press Club in 1987. He was the second reporter in the country to be embedded with the FDIC as it planned and executed the closing of an insolvent bank.
Crumpley went on to be the business news editor at two metro daily newspapers, also working as a local television news commentator at one. He left his last post as business editor at the New Orleans Times-Picayune in late 2005 to be the editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal.
