Grid biz magazine takes a vacation

Lewis Lazare of the Chicago Business Journal writes that the Grid business magazine of the Chicago Sun-Times did not publish this week.

Lazare writes, “Sun-Times subscribers looking for their copy in home-delivered editions of the paper would have discovered the magazine was missing.

“Rather, buried in the paper’s thin Sunday main section was a single page of Grid and a brief note indicating the magazine was taking a week off. Readers were told Grid would return next Sunday.

“Though it has tried hard to be light, tight and exceedingly bright in its approach to business coverage — a format perhaps more appealing to twentysomethings and thirtysomethings looking for a bit of business insight — Grid has been notably short on advertising since its debut.

“Grid, however, has regularly featured a full-page ad from World Business Chicago, a not-for-profit economic development entity. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is WBC’s board of directors chairman and Michael Sacks is board vice-chairman.”

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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.