About John Kroll

KROLL, JOHN is a deputy business editor at The Plain Dealer, a 350,000-circulation newspaper in Cleveland. He manages five reporters, oversees five prize-winning annual sections on personal finance and autos, edits the Driving section and handles the business department's online presence, including blogging and a weekly podcast. Kroll grew up in Chicago and has a journalism degree from Northwestern University. He's been a reporter, copy editor, columnist, page designer, picture editor, wire editor and personal finance/personal tech editor, starting at the Muskegon Chronicle and Saginaw News in Michigan and working at the Detroit Free Press and Chicago Sun-Times before coming to The Plain Dealer in 1986. He and his wife have traveled throughout Europe and the South Pacific, allowing him to indulge in his passion for photography. He reads extensively, from Catholic history to neurology, from James Thurber to Loren Estleman. And thanks to a recent Christmas present, he can make himself sound slightly less nerdy by saying he also enjoys snowshoeing.