Categories: OLD Media Moves

Crain’s Chicago names new managing editor

Steve Reiss, who has been assistant managing editor at Crain’s Chicago Business, has been promoted to managing editor.

A story on its website states, “Mr. Reiss joined Crain’s in February from the Washington Post, where he was enterprise editor, helping develop and edit stories for the paper’s front page and the home page of its website. In more than two decades at the Post, Mr. Reiss worked with the paper’s metro, national, investigative and features departments; he also was deputy assistant managing editor of its Style section. Before joining the Post, he was a reporter and editor at the Miami Herald.

“‘Steve proved himself immediately to be an exceptional editor and manager as assistant managing editor of our Business of Life features department,’ Crain’s Editor Michael Arndt says. ‘He’ll now bring those talents to the entire publication.’

“Mr. Reiss, 55, is a native of Ohio. He received a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Princeton University in 1979.”

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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.