Crain’s Detroit executive editor is leaving

Cindy Goodaker, the executive editor of Crain’s Detroit Business, is leaving the publication after 30-plus years.

Goodaker writes, “It’s a road I feel remarkably lucky to have traveled.

“But it’s time to explore other paths and perhaps clear a few new ones. And so, as the new year rings in, with metaphorical searchlight and chainsaw in hand, I am going to see what those might be.

“I take with me many good relationships, memories and tales from the front. I leave behind a lot of gratitude, particularly to Keith Crain, whose vision of a business newspaper that did not cover Ford, GM or Chrysler led me to Crain’s in September 1985.

“It’s worth repeating that Keith’s idea was considered a nonstarter by pretty much everyone he talked to. Most people did not believe that a business community outside the automakers existed beyond a few publicly traded companies.

“But, as Keith also has often said, innovation doesn’t happen in focus groups.”

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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.