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Karen Freese Zane, Rob Garcia, center, and Michael Stassus
Crain s Chicago Business is pleased to announce the promotion of one veteran team member and the addition of two new ones.
Karen Freese Zane has been named associate creative director, working closely with Creative Director Thomas Linden to oversee the look and feel of Crain s city-oriented publications in Chicago, New York, Detroit and Cleveland.
Freese Zane, 41, who initially joined Crain s in 2005, previously worked at GLC custom publishing and the Daily Southtown. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri. Karen is an exceptionally talented designer whose work has received numerous national and local awards and has helped make Crain s a visual standout in print and online, says Ann Dwyer, editor of Crain s Chicago Business. She also brings to her work the instincts of a journalist, always asking questions about the material and thinking deeply and creatively about ways to serve the reader. In the process,