Hasta La Creative!

Today we learned that Executive Editor Matt Quinn, hired by AdAge in 2013 to “build out the coverage of marketing and media,” is no longer with the publication.

Quinn worked as a financial analyst before turning to journalism and helped launch Financial Week in 2006; he reported on “commercial banking, investment banking and corporate cash management” for various publications. He joined AdAge after editing the Wall Street Journal’s CFO Journal in the magazine’s attempt to cement its position as what one of our industry contacts called “the magazine that clients like to read” by fluently speaking the language of CFOs and CMOs.

In January 2014, Quinn took over newsroom operations at AdAge when the pub cut its frequency, increased its per-issue page total, updated its website, began featuring more b-to-b news, and promoted Abbey Klaassen to the newly-created position of associate publisher, editorial & audience.

We have no word on the reason for his departure/future in the trade pub space or the magazine’s plans to replace him; neither Quinn nor AdAge responded to our requests for comment.