Crain's Chicago Business

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Crain's Chicago Business is a weekly business newspaper covering business in Chicago. It is published by Crain Communications. It has a print circulation of 45,650 and a readership of 202, 000 per week.[1]

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History[edit]

Crain's Chicago Business was launched on June 5, 1978. [2] In 1977, when Crain Communications chief Rance Crain went to Houston to give a speech to the Houston Advertising Club, he spent an afternoon listening to the publisher of the Houston Business Journal explain how his publication was developed. "I figured if a business publication worked well in Houston, it would be twice as successful in Chicago," Rance Crain once said. Rance Crain was the newspaper's first editor-in-chief, while Art Mertz (1917–1993), a longtime sales manager at Crain Communications' Advertising Age magazine, served as the first publisher of Crain's. Rance Crain tapped Steve Yahn, a senior editor at Advertising Age, to develop the prototype, do the initial hiring, and get the paper going, effectively acting as the paper's first editor. "We wanted to call it Chicago Business, but another guy came out with a paper with a similar name [which was short-lived]," Yahn said. "I told Rance he ought to put the Crain name on our publication to differentiate them, and he did."[3]

Crain's was originally planned to publish every other week, but with the demise of the Chicago Daily News that year, those creating Crain's decided to make it a weekly publication, using the end of the Daily News for marketing purposes and also drawing on editorial talent from the failed paper.[4]

In 2012, Crain’s Chicago Business moved into their new headquarters in the Crain Communications Building at 150 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 60601.

Staff[edit]

While Steve Yahn was Crain's founding editor, Dan Miller was quickly picked up from the failed Chicago Daily News staff and named editor in November of 1978. He stayed on as editor for ten years.

In 1989, Mark Miller was named editor of Crain's, succeeding Dan Miller (no relation), who had left to oversee Crain Communications' City & State magazine.[5] Between 1982 and 1989, Mark Miller had been the managing editor of Crain's. Mark Miller served as Crain's editor from 1989 until leaving in 1993 to join the Chicago Sun-Times as deputy managing editor.

In 1993, current Crain's publisher, David Snyder became the editor. He held post until 2000 when he became general manager/interactive and directed the relaunch of the Crain's website. [6] Snyder started at Crain's as a beat reporter and was associate publisher before his promotion to his current role.

After numerous reporter positions, Robert Reed, was editor of Crain's from 2000-2003. [7] Reed stayed in the job until leaving Crain's in early 2003.[8] He then moved to Bloomberg's Business Week, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's office and currently leads the investigative team at Better Government Association.

In November 2003, the paper hired Jeff Bailey from the Wall Street Journal's Chicago bureau to be the editor of Crain's.[9] Upon his departure in 2005, Joe Cahill was promoted from managing editor to editor, where he stayed until 2011. .[10] He is now a Crain's blogger and columnist.

In February 2011, Jim Kirk, a former Chicago Tribune business editor who most recently had been managing editor of the nonprofit Chicago News Cooperative, joined Crain's as chief of editorial operations.[11] He left in 2012 to become Senior Vice President and Editor in Chief of Chicago Sun-Times Media.

Michael Arndt is the current editor of Crain's. He is the former senior editor and senior correspondant for Bloomberg's Businesweek.[12]He began with Crain's in 2010 as managing editor and currently oversees an integrated print and digital newsroom.

Awards[edit]

In 2012, Crain’s received four Peter Lisagor awards from the Chicago Headline Club, three Society of American Business Editors and Writers awards and a record 14 awards from the Alliance of Area Business Publications. In addition, Crain’s launched an iPad app, which is on Apple’s App Store top 10 list of most downloaded Business or Investing apps.


References[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.crain.com/publications/city_publications.html
  2. ^ Goldsborough, Robert (1992). The Crain Adventure. Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC Business Books. pp. 89–94. ISBN 0-8442-3485-0. 
  3. ^ Goldsborough, Robert (1992). The Crain Adventure. Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC Business Books. pp. 89–94. ISBN 0-8442-3485-0. 
  4. ^ Goldsborough, Robert (1992). The Crain Adventure. Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC Business Books. pp. 89–94. ISBN 0-8442-3485-0. 
  5. ^ Lazarus, George (January 11, 1989). "No-name strategy will give cigarette brand 2d chance". Chicago Tribune. p. 4. 
  6. ^ "Crain's Chicago Business names Snyder to replace Blake as publisher". Chicago Tribune. 2010-09-07. 
  7. ^ Kirk, Jim (2000-01-06). "Weezie Kramer Bolts, Shocks Wjmk Insiders". Chicago Tribune. 
  8. ^ Kirk, Jim (2003-10-21). "Manton, Wolf and WLUP-FM in chatter loop". Chicago Tribune. 
  9. ^ Chandler, Susan (2005-02-26). "Crain's editor resigns, cites differences with publisher". Chicago Tribune. 
  10. ^ Channick, Robert (2011-11-21). "ahill leaving editor role". Chicago Tribune. 
  11. ^ "Kirk to take top editorial position at Crain's; Shalhoup new Reader newsroom boss". Chicago Tribune. 2011-02-07. 
  12. ^ "Arndt named new editor". Crain's Chicago Business. 2012-03-08. 

External links[edit]

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