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Jesse started at Crain in Detroit in 1982 as a reporter for Advertising Age. He has worked for Crain in four cities in three countries: as Los Angeles bureau chief for Automotive News, as executive editor of Automotive News Europe in London and then Munich, and returned to Automotive News in Detroit in 2008.

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