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Crain’s New York hires Schouten as editor in chief

Cory Schouten

Crain’s New York Business has hired Cory Schouten to be its editor in chief.

“I’m excited to lead a great and growing team chronicling business in the business capital of the world—at a critical moment,” said Schouten on Twitter.

He has been The Wall Street Journal’s formats editor to oversee newsletters, calendars and other new formats.

Before that, he led The Journal’s newsletter revamp. Schouten helped its newsletters grow and improve in quality, and he has played a key role in launching the fast-growing Future of Everything, Grapevine and Women In and the Election + Business newsletters.

Before Schouten joined the Journal, he was an editor at the Columbia Journalism Review and the Indianapolis Business Journal. He led the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing as a board member and then president before completing the Knight-Bagehot fellowship at Columbia.

He has won multiple SABEW awards for his editing and writing, including for investigative reporting and beat reporting.

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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