JIM CRUTCHFIELD HAS MORE MOVES THAN A WILDLY GYRATING BELLY DANCER

 

Crutchfield’s 11^th job with Marshall Project

Former BJ managing editor Jim Crutchfield was named editor-in-chief of the Marshall Project’s first local news team in Cleveland.

He began at the Pittsburgh Press in 1968, did PR for the Pittsburgh Model Cities Program, reporter for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, managing editor of the BJ, executive editor of the Long Beach Press-Telegram, deputy managing editor for the Detroit Free Press, press secretary for Senator Carl Levin and, from 2001-2006, president and publisher of the BJ, then Gaylor Visiting Professor of Journalism Ethics at Arizona State’s Journalism School and next the journalism faculty of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

He always keeps an empty suitcase handy for his next move.

He wears more hats than Stuart Warner.

The Marshall Project is online journalism focusing on criminal justice in America. Its leaders are former hedge fund manager Neil Barsky and former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller. One out of two isn’t bad unless it’s your college’s conference standings. Then it’s the unfortunate .500.