Categories: OLD Media Moves

Kapos takes column to Chicago Sun-Times

Shia Kapos, who has been writing a regular column for Crain’s Chicago Business until she left there in March, will now write for the Chicago Sun-Times, reports Robert Feder.

Feder writes, “her newsy ‘Taking Names’ column to the Sun-Times, where it will run twice a week, starting June 20. The move will coincide with the launch of her independent blog, also called ‘Taking Names.’

“Content for Kapos’s print column will be aggregated from her blog posts, according to Jim Kirk, publisher and editor of the Sun-Times. ‘It will be personality-driven,’ Kapos said of her new blog and column. ‘I’ll be looking at what people do away from the office. You’re going to see more stories about the intersection of business and politics . . . and more scoops.’

“Until last March, Kapos was a fixture at Crain’s Chicago Business, where she spent 10 years as senior reporter and columnist. Before that she was Midwest correspondent for People magazine, staff reporter for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to the New York Times.”

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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.