Chris Quinn is the Editor of cleveland.com and President of Advance Ohio. He started in journalism in 1980 as a staff writer at a New Jersey weekly paper before moving on to reporting positions in Dover, DE, Harrisburg, PA, and Orlando, FL.

He joined The Plain Dealer as a crime reporter in 1996 and covered Cleveland City Hall from 1999 to 2002, when he moved into editing. In 2006 he became Metro Editor and headed newsgathering at the paper until August 2013, when he joined what is now known as Advance Ohio as Vice President of Content.

Quinn is a native of New Jersey and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Temple University.