Categories: OLD Media Moves

Crain’s Chicago hires head of digital strategy

Frank Sennett, former president and editor-in-chief of Time Out Chicago, will join Crain’s Chicago Business Jan. 20 as the publication’s new head of digital strategy.

A story on the Crain’s Chicago website states, “He will fill the post held by Brian Reilly, who was recently promoted to head of digital strategy for all of Crain Communications Inc., which also publishes Advertising Age, Automotive News, Business Insurance and a range of other trade magazines.

“From January 2008 until April 2013, Mr. Sennett managed a staff of more than 60 people who produced the weekly magazine Time Out Chicago, a 2008 National Magazine Award finalist, as well as the bimonthly Time Out Chicago Kids, the annual Eating & Drinking Guide, a Time Out Chicago iPhone app and a tablet edition.

“After Time Out Chicago was sold in 2013, Mr. Sennett managed the transition to its new owners and in recent months has served as interim COO of RogerEbert.com. He was also hired as a consultant by Tribune Co. to play a role in the relaunch of its Metromix entertainment website.

“In his new role at Crain’s, Mr. Sennett will work with the editorial and business-side teams to strengthen the publication’s existing digital properties and develop new ones.”

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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