Hordt named editor of Crain’s New York

Bob Hordt

Robert Hordt, the deputy editor at Investment News, has been named editor of Crain’s New York Business.

He started Monday.

His first daily newspaper job was at the Gloucester County Times outside Philadelphia, but most of his career – 23 years – was spent at the Asbury Park Press at the Jersey Shore, first as a business reporter and later as business editor.

He joined Crain’s New York Business as an assistant managing editor in 2007 and was promoted to managing editor the next year. He joined Investment News in 2009 as an assistant managing editor in charge of special reports and was later promoted to deputy editor.

He joins Fred Gabriel, who was hired as publisher and executive editor of Crain’s New York after working as editorial director at Investment News.

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.