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Former Crain’s Detroit editor returns to Detroit News

November 8, 2022

Posted by Chris Roush

Kelley Root

Kelley Root, the former editor of Crain’s Detroit Business News, has returned to the Detroit News as special projects editor.

She had been with Crain’s Detroit for two-and-a-half years before leaving in September.

Root was previously at The Detroit News, and was named managing editor in 2019. She held a series of senior editor roles since joining The News in 2004. She had been metro editor, a stint that included supervising the reporting team covering Detroit’s bankruptcy, which won multiple national and local journalism awards.

She previously spent 15 years at the Grand Rapids Press as a reporter and assistant city editor.

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