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Crain’s Chicago ME resigns for ESPN job

Crain’s Chicago Business managing editor Steve Reiss resigned Tuesday to join ESPN’s upcoming website The Undefeated, reports Robert Feder.

Feder writes, “Reiss joined Crain’s in 2012 after more than two decades at the Washington Post, where he rose to enterprise editor. An Ohio native and graduate of Princeton University, he previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Miami Herald.

“The move will reunite Reiss with Kevin Merida, former managing editor of the Washington Post, who now is senior vice president at ESPN in charge of The Undefeated. Merida was named to succeed Whitlock last October.

“Michael Arndt, editor of Crain’s Chicago Business, said he plans to fill the position of managing editor as soon as possible. ‘Steve did a lot at Crain’s,’ Arndt said. ‘I’ll depend on his successor to do just as much.'”

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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.