Crain’s Detroit hires digital editor

Carlos Portocarrero

Crain’s Detroit Business has hired Carlos Portocarrero as its digital editor.

A story on its website states that he will “manage website projects and work with reporters to elevate the digital presentation of stories.

“Portocarrero, 35, recently worked at Nuveen in Chicago as a digital project manager. Previously, he worked for Discovery Worldwide and Jacobson/Rost, both in Chicago, as a digital project manager.

“He has degrees in communications and philosophy from Boston College and a master’s in writing from DePaul University.”

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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.