Crain’s Cleveland names Scalzo its sports business reporter

Joe Scalzo

Crain’s Cleveland Business has hired Joe Scalzo as its sports business reporter.

He replaces Kevin Kleps, who left the publication.

Scalzo has been at Tire Business and its sister publication, Rubber & Plastics News, as the publications’ online content editor since June 2020. Scalzo oversaw web and social media sites for both brands.

Scalzo was a sports writer for The Canton Repository in Canton, Ohio, for more than four years. He has been honored numerous times for his work, including being named Sports Writer of the Year six times by the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors.

Prior to his role at the Repository, Scalzo was a journalist for The Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio, for 14 years.

Scalzo graduated from Malone University in Canton.

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.