Categories: OLD Media Moves

Crain's names editor for new British paper

Steve Brauner, editor of the North West Evening Mail in Barrow, will be the editor of the new Crainâ€™s Manchester Business weekly newspaper launching in December, according to the How-Do web site.

A story on the web site stated, “Publisher Arthur Porter told How-Do that they are planning two editions in December starting on 3 December, a further two editions in January and then weekly from February.

“The paper will initially be controlled/free but intends to move as soon as possible to paid-for. Initial circulation is likely to be between 10,000 to 15,000.

“Porter told How-Do that eight staff have now been recruited and a further 10 are being recruited.”

Read more here. It’s expected that Crain’s, which operates business newspapers in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and New York, will use the Manchester paper to launch others in Europe.

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.