Senior writer for Automotive News retires
Brad Wernle, a senior writer for Crain’s publication Automotive News, is retiring after 32 years with the company. Wernle writes, “Thirty-two years ago today, I walked in the door at Crain Communications as a newly hired reporter for a startup publication called Crain’s Detroit Business. Today, my 32nd anniversary, is also my last day working for […]
Pensions & Investments seeks web producer
Pensions & Investments is seeking a web producer. This is an ideal job for a digitally savvy journalist who has strong news judgment, video editing skills and a knack for optimizing editorial content for the web. A successful candidate will thrive on working with editors and reporters to produce videos, interactive graphics and other digital […]
Investment News seeks senior projects editor
InvestmentNews, the preeminent source of news and information for financial advisers, is seeking a creative and detail-oriented Special Projects Editor to help expand our fast-growing franchise of editorial-based projects that grow and engage our core audience and generate revenue. The role involves developing concepts for, and working with our editorial team to produce supplements, newsletters, […]
Crain seeks editor for newsletters
Crain is seeking an editor to help our team cover business news around the country as part of a group of newsletters and websites Crain Communications launched last year. (Visit http://www.crains.com/ to see what we’re working on.) The job will involve curating stories for our Monday through Friday newsletters and editing original business stories from around […]
Crain’s Detroit to put more content behind paywall in 2017
Crain’s Detroit Business plans to put more of its content behind its paywall in 2017, writes publisher Mary Kramer. Kramer writes, “Print advertising accounts for well over 50 percent of our revenue at Crain’s — the revenue that helps to support our terrific newsroom. But we also post about 100 stories a week on our website, crainsdetroit.com, […]
Crain’s Detroit hires Livengood from Detroit News
Chad Livengood, the Lansing bureau chief for The Detroit News, will join Crain’s Detroit Business on Dec. 26 to launch a new beat designed to cover the multifaceted story of Detroit rising. A story on its website states, “Livengood, 34, has covered the governor, state agencies, the Legislature and presidential politics for Michigan’s second-largest paper […]
Crain’s Chicago Business editorial cartoonist says goodbye
Roger Schillerstrom‘s first cartoon appeared in Crain’s Chicago Business in 1982. Seven years later, Crain Communications elevated him to full-time staff cartoonist. He is the only person to hold that position in the parent company’s 100-year history. Though Schillerstrom will continue working as a freelance cartoonist, this is his last cartoon for Crain’s. Over his 34-year tenure […]
Crain’s Detroit seeks entrepreneurship reporter
Crain’s Detroit Business is looking for a dynamic, self-starting reporter to cover the city of Detroit and entrepreneurship. This position requires 5+ years of reporting experience, with a demonstrated ability to develop sources, break news and write features. Detroit’s bankruptcy reorganization and its efforts to keep its financial stabilization and turnaround intact has made the […]
Ad Age editor Wheaton to depart
Ad Age editor Ken Wheaton announced Monday that he will leave the publication at the end of the year to focus on his fiction writing. A story on its website states, “Wheaton, who was named editor in July of 2015, joined the company in 2000 as a copyeditor and served as features editor and managing editor […]
LinkedIn hires Siew as financial services editor
Walden Siew, who has worked at Investment News, Bloomberg and Reuters, has been hired by LinkedIn as its financial services editor. Siew writes, “Joining LinkedIn is a departure for me from a traditional journalism path. But it really feels like a natural transition that mirrors the transformation and disruption that is shaking up the entire […]
