Former Philadelphia Business Journal editor in chief Craig Ey has been hired as director of communications for the Maryland Insurance Administration.
Ey will be responsible for external and internal communications, media relations and public information requests.
Before joining the Maryland Insurance Administration, he served as editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Business Journal from 2010 to 2019. Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief of the Birmingham Business Journal for four years and managing editor at the Baltimore Business Journal for seven years.
Earlier in his career, he was a journalist and editor at several newspapers in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
A graduate of Loyola University Maryland, Ey has won numerous awards for journalism and management from American City Business Journals, the Associated Press, the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, the Alabama Press Association and the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association.
Under his leadership, the Philadelphia Business Journal was named 2018 Newspaper of the Year by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association.
