Crain’s New York seeks data journalist

Crain’s New York Business is looking for a creative individual with strong analytical skills who can help us expand and deepen our signature data offerings. The reporter’s main responsibility will be to produce Crain’s renowned business lists; contribute data reporting to the newspaper’s editorial team; and help produce the weekly and yearly Stats and the […]

Crain’s New York seeks health care reporter

Crain’s New York Business is looking for a full-time, data-savvy health care business journalist to join a team that produces an award-winning daily subscription newsletter, health care data, daily news online and in-depth, magazine length features in print. This is a job for an energetic reporter who wants to be at the center of one […]

Automotive News wins Grand Neal Award

Automotive News won the Grand Neal Award, the highest award given at the 61st annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards luncheon, for its coverage of the GM ignition switch recall crisis. A story on its website states, “The Grand Neal, given by the Association of Business Information and Media Companies, marks the pinnacle […]

Crain’s seeks AME for Investment News

InvestmentNews is seeking a bright, ambitious and experienced assistant managing editor to join its editorial team and to take charge of Crain’s Wealth, a successful, consumer-oriented, website that is managed and maintained by InvestmentNews. This is an excellent opportunity for a personal finance editor with a passion for investing, retirement planning, tax and estate issues […]

Crain’s looks to diversity as biz journals are flat

Crain Communication is seeking to diversify its operations amid flat growth at its weekly business newspapers in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and New York, writes Robert Channick of the Chicago Tribune. Channick writes, “Crain’s Chicago Business is the oldest and largest of its four weekly business journals, which also serve Cleveland, Detroit and New York. The […]

Crain’s New York losing money, print schedule debated

Keith Kelly of the New York Post reports that Crain’s New York Business may have lost as much as $1 million in 2014, and its weekly publication schedule is being debated. Kelly writes, “Parent Crain Communications is also considering cutting the frequency of the 30-year-old weekly, printing it every other week to cut annual losses […]

Crain’s Chicago looks at acquisitions, diversification

Lewis Lazare of the Chicago Business Journal spoke with Crain’s Chicago Business publisher David Snyder about how the publication, and the Crain company, plans to grow. Lazare writes, “On the topic of redeployment of assets, Snyder said he is focusing, among other things, on growing Crain’s custom publishing unit, which currently produces program books for […]

A change at the top at CraIn’s New York

Glenn Coleman, the editor of Crain’s New York Business, writes Friday about why he is stepping down to become an editor at large. Coleman writes, “I have not been hit by that proverbial bus, but allow me to drive a truck through this metaphor and say I’ve decided to pull the vehicle to the side […]

Crain’s New York lays off 40 percent of editorial staff

Crain’s New York Business on Thursday laid off a dozen reporters and editors — 40 percent of its full-time editorial staff — with publisher Jill Kaplan citing a need to “re-align the brand’s costs with its revenues,” according to people who described the company’s explanation for the downsizing. Editor Glenn Coleman told his staff he […]

Merrion leaves Crain’s Chicago, which closes DC bureau

Paul Merrion, who has been with Crain’s Chicago since it opened in 1978, is leaving the business weekly, which is closing its Washington bureau. In a note to friends and sources, Merrion wrote: Greetings! Just wanted to let you know that I’m leaving Crain’s Chicago Business and Crain Communications. To reduce costs, CCB is closing […]