DETROIT — Jason Stein, writer of Automotive Information for the previous eight years, is leaving Crain Communications Inc. to host SiriusXM’s new radio present, “Vehicles & Tradition with Jason Stein,” and launch Flat Six Media, a worldwide media companies and broadcasting platform.

The announcement was made Tuesday by KC Crain, CEO of Crain Communications, who will succeed Stein as Automotive Information writer efficient Sept. 15. As well as, Josh Freed has been named head of technique.

Stein, 49, joined Automotive Information as a reporter in 2003 after a journalism profession that included positions in Canada, Ohio and Indiana. He was writer of Automotive Information Europe from 2006 to 2009, and editor of Automotive Information from 2009 to 2017. Stein, a local of Windsor, Ont., was additionally writer of Automotive Information Canada from its inception in 2016 till the hiring of Tim Dimopoulos in early 2021. Stein is a vice-president of Crain Communications.

“It has been an honour to work for one of many biggest business-to-business media organizations,” Stein mentioned in a press release. “I’m humbled by the large expertise inside the Automotive Information workforce, all of whom are devoted to first-class journalism and an eternal motto that the reader comes first.”

In 2015, Automotive Information gained the Grand Neal Award for its protection of the Normal Motors ignition-switch recall disaster. The Grand Neal, a part of the Jesse H. Neal Awards, marks the head of accomplishment in business-to-business media.

KC Crain, 41, has been writer of the Automotive Information group since 2013. He’s additionally CEO of Crain Communications, the Detroit dad or mum of Automotive Information and practically 20 different commerce and enterprise titles in North America, Europe and Asia.

He began within the household firm as a reporter for Automotive Information and labored by a collection of roles together with government vice chairman, director of company operations, president and COO.

Crain holds a bachelor’s diploma in communications from Denison College.

Freed, 30, joined Automotive Information in 2012. His roles have included digital common supervisor and content material studio chief.