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Arndt named ME of Crain's Chicago

Michael Arndt, a former BusinessWeek staffer, has been named the managing editor of Crain’s Chicago Business. He replaces Brandon Copple, who left earlier this summer.

Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune writes, “Arndt most recently was Chicago-based editor for innovation and design coverage at Bloomberg Businessweek, a role he assumed with BusinessWeek before that magazine’s acquisition by Bloomberg last year. A senior correspondent in the Chicago bureau, he also served as editor-in-chief of BW Chicago, BusinessWeek’s experiment with a local monthly supplement, which ended after seven months in June 2008.

“Previously, Arndt was an editor in the Chicago Tribune’s business department and spent five years covering economic issues in the Tribune’s Washington D.C. bureau.

“Copple, who had been Crain’s Chicago Business since 2005, left to join Groupon.com, the fast-growing social networking site that has been offering users daily discounts to businesses in their area since November 2008.”

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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.