Categories: OLD Media Moves

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 of the road so I can officially hand over the steering wheel to Jeremy Smerd, my most excellent No. 2 these past few years.

“Jeremy becomes No. 1 with our next issue as the newly elevated executive editor of Crain’s New York Business, while I take on a new role as editor at large to help him and his newsroom in the transition.

“I think Gloria would approve. Jeremy will lead our editorial team as we expand our online presence and reinvent our print offerings. The changes to come in 2015 and beyond should prove exciting for our audiences. Crain’s New York Business has been around a long time—2015 marks its 30th year as a weekly newspaper—and I’ve been fortunate to be its editor or managing editor for the past six years.

“What a ride. It’s time to enjoy the view from my new seat on this bus.”

Read more here.

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.

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