Categories: OLD Media Moves

Crain’s Detroit reporters will cover just one topic

Ron Fournier, the new publisher and editor of Crain’s Detroit Business, writes about how the newsroom has been restructured.

Fournier writes, “First, the Crain’s newsroom has just been restructured to produce more news that my predecessor, Mary Kramer, calls ‘business intelligence’ — information and insights that help you find new business and reshape yours. This is our bread and butter, information you can’t get anywhere else, and we’re doubling down on it.

“Crain’s beat reporters will no longer be responsible for more than one topic area, a practice that spread our coverage thin. Our top reporters will focus on a single beat and nail it — developing sources, mining those sources for scoops and insights, and writing stories that provoke new thinking and action.

“In short, they’ll go deeper: Jay Greene on health care, Kirk Pinho on real estate, Bill Shea on sports business, Lindsay VanHulle on government, Sherri Welch on nonprofits and Dustin Walsh on economic issues. Our latest addition, Chad Livengood, will connect the dots on a beat we call Detroit Rising.”

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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.

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  • Just another way to say "Doing more with less" across the Crain's portfolio, as the brand slides itself into irrelevance. A real shakeup involves investing more in the product - the news - and taking out less cash for the Crain family freeriders and their cronies.

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