The Business Journal’s editor-in-chief, Charles Crumpley, has left the news operation after 18 years with the organization. Hannah Welk, who has been a managing editor, has been promoted to interim editor.
“It has been an honor and a true pleasure to work here,” Crumpley said. “Journalism allows you to collaborate with talented, creative people under a ticking clock to accomplish your goal, and that is exhilarating. Time kept zooming by. Have I really been here all these years?”
Crumpley does not plan to retire but will take some time to explore his next step. The change is in effect: Crumpley’s last day was Friday; Welk became editor on Monday.
“I feel really good about this change,” Crumpley said. “The team is strong. Hannah has been managing editor more than a year and is a natural leader. I know she will excel in her new post.”
Josh Schimmels, the Business Journal’s publisher and chief executive, shares, “I’ve had the honor of working with Charlie in various capacities since 2010. His professionalism and dedication to the art of the story is unparalleled. Like the true leader he is, he’s positioned the editorial team to succeed for years to come. He’s been invaluable the past two years while we merged our two papers’ operations. To best use Charlie’s own terms, I give him a ‘tip of the hat’ and congratulate him for all that he’s done throughout our industry.”
Crumpley began his career as a reporter and eventually became a senior writer for the Kansas City Star, where he won several national honors including an Overall First Place Award from the National Press Club in 1987. He was the second reporter in the country to be embedded with the FDIC as it planned and executed the closing of an insolvent bank. Also, in 1990-91 he was a Fulbright scholar to Japan, and for years afterward Fulbright appointed him to selection committees, and he chaired several, to choose the next generation of foreign scholars.
Crumpley went…
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