Categories: OLD Media Moves

Crain closing Business Insurance

Crain editorial employees received the following announcement on Tuesday:

Today we announced that we are discontinuing our Business Insurance brand.

For nearly 50 years, Business Insurance has been the commercial insurance industry’s leading source of news and information. However, even after heavily investing in an extremely talented team, market shifts proved too great to maintain healthy revenue growth despite our staff’s best efforts.

We have been actively investing in brands that provide the best revenue mix of print, digital, content marketing and events in markets with proven growth potential. The company is continually reviewing its portfolio against this strategy.

The Aug. 1 issue of Business Insurance was its last print issue; the website, businessinsurance.com, and the Business Insurance events business will cease operation as of Aug. 9.

Crain HR officials are meeting with Business Insurance staff to discuss their future with the company.

We are grateful to our entire Business Insurance staff, and their loyal readers and advertising partners, for their efforts and tremendous support these many years.

Sincerely, KC and Chris Crain

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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