{"id":1560,"date":"2013-12-07T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2013-12-07T13:28:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T19:28:35","slug":"crains-elects-to-get-more-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/07\/crains-elects-to-get-more-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Crain\u2019s elects to get more political"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crain's<\/a><\/a>Chicago\u2019s go-to place for business news is raising its political profile, too.<\/p>\n

Just in time for the 2014 election cycle, Crain\u2019s Chicago Business<\/a> is boosting its editorial staff and increasing its coverage of government and politics. Clearly taking aim at the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times, the expansion will enhance the franchise of Greg Hinz, now in his 18th year as Crain\u2019s star political columnist and blogger.<\/p>\n

Named to the new position of government and politics editor is veteran Chicago journalist Tom Corfman, who most recently was Crain\u2019s assistant managing editor. A new hire will assume his former duties leading online coverage of commercial real estate and health care.<\/p>\n

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David Snyder<\/p><\/div>\n

Crain\u2019s also plans to add another political reporter early in 2014 and perhaps a third later in the year. When all the moves are in place \u2014 including the hiring of a new director of social media \u2014 they\u2019ll result in the largest newsroom staff in Crain\u2019s 35-year history, according to publisher David Snyder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe expanded political reporting \u2014 well as our growing print and digital lifestyle coverage \u2014 is part of our broader, ongoing strategy to make Crain's a \u2018first read\u2019 for the region's best-connected, best-educated and most influential readers,\u201d Snyder told me, comparing the plan to what the Wall Street Journal has done nationally in recent years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have found that many of the 115,000 readers who receive our morning alert and nearly 100,000 who get our afternoon alert have disengaged from the city's two dailies and that many of those readers rely on Crain's as their primary source for local news,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cUnder our debt-free, family ownership we see the chance to broaden our readership even more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago\u2019s go-to place for business news is raising its political profile, too. Just in time for the 2014 election cycle, Crain\u2019s Chicago Business is boosting its editorial staff and increasing its coverage of government and politics. Clearly taking aim at the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times, the expansion will enhance the franchise of Greg Hinz,... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}