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KC Crain named publisher of Crain’s Detroit Business

KC Crain

KC Crain, 39, a member of the third generation of family ownership of Crain Communications, has been named publisher of Crain’s Detroit Business. He will continue to serve as president of the parent company.

A story on Crain’s Detroit’s website noted other changes at Crain papers.

It reads, “Lisa Rudy, 55, director of sales for Crain’s Detroit Business and Crain’s Cleveland Business, has been named associate publisher for both titles.

“Kristin Bull, 45, custom publishing director for Crain’s Detroit Business, will assume additional responsibility for content strategy for Crain events in Detroit in 2019.

“And Frank Sennett, 50, director of custom publishing and digital strategy for Crain’s Chicago Business, has been named director of digital products and strategy for all four city titles.

“Mary Kramer remains group publisher overseeing the four Crain city titles.”

Read more here.

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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