Categories: OLD Media Moves

Crain’s Chicago reporter Ecker moves to commercial real estate beat

Danny Ecker

Danny Ecker, who tackles the sports business beat at Crain’s Chicago Business, is moving to the commercial real estate beat for the paper.

Ecker has also covered Chicago’s massive convention and tourism industry, including the operations of McCormick Place, Choose Chicago and Navy Pier.

As a result, Ecker is shutting the On Sports blog. He writes:

It has been a privilege to write about the marketing, media, products and personalities tied to the area’s professional and college teams. And I don’t plan on stopping entirely. I’ll continue to share news and perspective on the local sports business scene on Twitter, so be sure to follow me there. (I’ll also have a post or two in the near future as I tie up some loose ends.) Thank you for reading during what has been an eventful half-decade on the Chicago sports business scene.

He joined Crain’s in 2010 and previously worked as a producer for UWire.com, a college sports and news website.

He is a 2008 graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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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