Layoffs at Crain’s Chicago hit three editors

Layoffs at Crain’s Chicago Business on Monday have resulted in three editors losing their jobs.

Assistant managing editor Craig Newman was among those laid off.

Newman formerly was managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times from 2012 to 2015. He joined the Sun-Times in 2003 as deputy design director/multimedia producer. In addition, he was assistant managing editor/special projects, web and print news editor, design editor and blogger at the Sun-Times

Newman has also worked at the Boston Globe, Times of Northwest Indiana, Oshkosh Northwestern and a series of dailies and weeklies in his home state of Virginia.

Also laid off was Tom Corfman, an assistant managing editor for politics and government coverage. Corfman had been there for more than a decade, joining in 2006 to launch the ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com news service. Five years later, he directed the start of Chicago Health Care Daily.

Corfman covered commercial real estate for six years at the Chicago Tribune. He was a real estate reporter for Crain’s from 1997 to 2000. Before that, he was managing editor at the Chicago Reporter, an urban affairs publication.

Also laid off was Richard Skews, who has been with Crain’s since 1980, primarily with Advertising Age. With Crain’s Chicago, he has been a copy editor for the past 10 months. Before that, he was associate editor of Advertising Age.