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Crain’s Chicago names Kirk head of editorial operations
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Crain’s Chicago Business announced Monday that Jim Kirk, a veteran Chicago business journalist, will assume the newly created post of chief of editorial operations.
A story on its site states, “In that role, Mr. Kirk will oversee Crain’s growing number of content-based businesses, which have expanded in recent years with the publication’s increased emphasis on online, event and data offerings.
“Joseph Cahill will remain editor of Crain’s Chicago Business and will continue to direct the paper’s award-winning print and online news operations.
“Mr. Kirk’s primary responsibilities will be overseeing the expansion of Crain’s editorial franchise by spearheading the development and distribution of new, editorially driven products that build on Crain’s position as the market-leading source for Chicago business news and information.”
Crain's Chicago names new publisher
by Chris Roush
David Blake is stepping down after 10 years as publisher of Crain’s Chicago Business, which on Tuesday named associate publisher David Snyder his successor, effective Oct. 15, reports Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune.
Rosenthal writes, “Under Blake, Crain’s launched its ChicagoBusiness.com as a daily news site, along with ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com, while expanding its event business, as part of the effort to counter the economy’s toll on advertising and more than 10 percent erosion of its print circulation over the last decade.
“Crain’s this year restored pay levels that had been cut in tandem with job reductions in 2009, when the weekly also reduced costs by skipping weeks in print for the first time in its history, a move it has not repeated this year. Blake said Snyder ‘is ideally prepared to lead Crain’s.’
“Snyder began at Crain’s as a researcher in its Washington bureau in 1983, moving to Chicago the following year, rising through the reporting ranks to editor in 1993. He became general manager/interactive in 2000 and became associate publisher four years later.”
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Arndt named ME of Crain's Chicago
by Chris Roush
Michael Arndt, a former BusinessWeek staffer, has been named the managing editor of Crain’s Chicago Business. He replaces Brandon Copple, who left earlier this summer.
Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune writes, “Arndt most recently was Chicago-based editor for innovation and design coverage at Bloomberg Businessweek, a role he assumed with BusinessWeek before that magazine’s acquisition by Bloomberg last year. A senior correspondent in the Chicago bureau, he also served as editor-in-chief of BW Chicago, BusinessWeek’s experiment with a local monthly supplement, which ended after seven months in June 2008.
“Previously, Arndt was an editor in the Chicago Tribune’s business department and spent five years covering economic issues in the Tribune’s Washington D.C. bureau.
“Copple, who had been Crain’s Chicago Business since 2005, left to join Groupon.com, the fast-growing social networking site that has been offering users daily discounts to businesses in their area since November 2008.”
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Crain's Cleveland editor named to Journalism Hall of Fame
by Chris Roush
Mark Dodosh, the editor of Crain’s Cleveland Business, has been named to the Press Club of Cleveland’s Journalism Hall of Fame.
Dodosh joined Crain’s Cleveland Business as managing editor in June 1985 and was named editor in October 1988. Before that, he was a reporter for five years with The Wall Street Journal and a news editor for three years with a broadcast news service of the Journal’s parent, Dow Jones & Co.
Dodosh and the publication have won numerous awards during his tenure. In 2000, Dodosh was the recipient of a second-place award for editorial writing in the annual Excellence in Journalism competition staged by the Association of Area Business Publications, an industry organization for regional business publications in the United States and Canada.
In 2009, he won a Best in Ohio award from the Press Club for his editorials.
The radical reinvention of Forbes
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Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York Business writes Sunday about the dramatic changes occurring at Forbes magazine.
Flamm writes, “According to a 19-page presentation that was distributed to advertisers and obtained by Crain’s, Mr. D’Vorkin will turn Forbes into a digital-age print property with a ‘web-compatible aesthetic’ and a rededicated focus on long-form journalism. Forbes.com will put news at the center of social media conversations and foster ‘participatory story-building’ to bring users and other journalists into the discussion.
“In a departure from the traditional separation of church and state in print journalism, an ‘AdVoice’ platform will allow marketers to supply content to both the magazine and website.
“Most significantly, Mr. D’Vorkin, a former AOL executive who has also been an editor at Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, will field an army of bloggers from existing staff and new contributors. They will publish and promote themselves using tools developed at web journalism startup True/Slant, which he founded and ran until Forbes bought it in May. He certainly has experience creating winning web businesses. At AOL, he helped to launch TMZ, the wildly popular gossip site.
“For Forbes staffers, this brave new world of entrepreneurial journalism has inspired excitement—and fear. ‘It’s going to be a sink-or-swim Darwinian experience,’ says one writer turned blogger.”
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Crain's Cleveland unveils redesigned site
by Chris Roush
Brian Tucker of Crain’s Cleveland Business writes Monday about its redesigned Web site.
Tucker writes, “Regulars will recognize our Daily News area as well as our popular ‘Going Places’ section of job promotions and our ‘news by industry’ area that allows you to easily scan news by economic sector.
“But we know that a regular criticism of the news media — exacerbated by the harsh economy of the past two years — is that reporting focuses on the negative. So we created ‘Bright Spots,’ a gathering of stories about positive happenings in our regional businesses.
“Our site now houses the Ohio News Roundup, which scans the daily and business newspapers across Ohio each day to give you a broad look at what’s happening in the Buckeye State that’s of interest to business readers.
“Our ‘Stocks of Local Interest’ button on the home page not only gives you the latest data on 60 local companies, but it gives you handy links to our most recent stories about each.”
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Crain’s closing British paper
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Crain Communications, which operates business weeklies in New York, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit, is closing its business weekly in Manchester, England.
It was the first local business journal to be published in the United Kingdom.
A story on its site states, “‘While we have been pleased with the support received from Crain’s Manchester Business readers from the beginning of the project, ultimately the limited support from key advertising sectors has made the project unsustainable,’ said Chris Crain, senior vice president, Crain Communications Inc. and editor-in-chief, Crain’s Manchester Business.
“‘When we launched in August 2007, we introduced a new concept to the UK, based on a successful US weekly business publication model,’ added Crain. ‘Editor Stephen Brauner created a highly useful product that was met with great excitement from the Greater Manchester business community because it captured the must know news and information for the coming business week.
“‘In a recessionary environment that withered marketing budgets around the globe, Associate Publisher Kathryn Toledano and her sales team managed to book 130 different advertisers into the publication. Kathryn’s creativity, intelligence and sheer determination provided a stabilizing effect to the business even in its rockiest times,’ added Crain.”
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Crain's closing British paper
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Crain Communications, which operates business weeklies in New York, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit, is closing its business weekly in Manchester, England.
It was the first local business journal to be published in the United Kingdom.
A story on its site states, “‘While we have been pleased with the support received from Crain’s Manchester Business readers from the beginning of the project, ultimately the limited support from key advertising sectors has made the project unsustainable,’ said Chris Crain, senior vice president, Crain Communications Inc. and editor-in-chief, Crain’s Manchester Business.
“‘When we launched in August 2007, we introduced a new concept to the UK, based on a successful US weekly business publication model,’ added Crain. ‘Editor Stephen Brauner created a highly useful product that was met with great excitement from the Greater Manchester business community because it captured the must know news and information for the coming business week.
“‘In a recessionary environment that withered marketing budgets around the globe, Associate Publisher Kathryn Toledano and her sales team managed to book 130 different advertisers into the publication. Kathryn’s creativity, intelligence and sheer determination provided a stabilizing effect to the business even in its rockiest times,’ added Crain.”
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Crain's Chicago Business ME leaving paper
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Brandon Copple, the managing editor at Crain’s Chicago Business, is leaving the weekly paper to join a fast-growing social networking site that offers users daily discounts to businesses, according to Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune.
Rosenthal writes, “Copple joined Crain’s in September 2004, becoming its managing editor 11 months later. Over his nearly five years in the job, he took on more of a role in Crain’s digital and multimedia efforts as well as helping direct news coverage for the weekly print edition.
“Previously, Copple was an editor with Greater Illinois Newsgroup of four Downstate newspapers, a staff writer at Forbes magazine and an intern with the Wall Street Journal. He holds a law degree and bachelor’s degree in history from from the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
“Copple will manage and edit content at Groupon, including that associated with the site’s daily deals, while also helping oversee staff expansion.”
Read more here. Three other Crain’s Chicago staffers have made plans to leave the paper as well.
The founding of the Indianapolis Business Journal
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Tom Harton, the editor of the Indianapolis Business Journal, writes in the latest issue about the founding of the paper back in 1980 by Mark Vittert with funding from a former insurance company CEO.
“Vittert and Burkhart pictured a simple, little, four-pager—a newsletter really—that would be for and about the people who conducted business here. What they got on May 19, 1980, was a 24-page tabloid that has evolved into something much more significant in the city’s media universe—thanks to the support of longtime owners Mickey Maurer and Bob Schloss, who bought the paper in 1990.
“The lead story in Volume I, Issue I, was about the late businessman R.V. Welch’s dream of building a stadium and attracting a National Football League team.
“Vittert and I looked at that front page before he left. He remembered it fondly, almost wistfully. He talked about speaking at Burkhart’s funeral in 1999. He thanked me for reminiscing with him and for being a part of the IBJ success story and walked out the door.”
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