Newly Named Fortune Editor Alan Murray Eyes Mobile, Social

Will bulk up digital platforms

This morning, Time Inc. announced that Alan Murray, president of the Pew Research Center in D.C. and former Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor and online executive editor, would be taking over as editor of Fortune, replacing former editor Andy Serwer. Murray was brought into the Time Inc. fold by evp Todd Larsen and chief content officer Norman Pearlstine, both WSJ alums with whom Murray worked while at the newspaper. (Larsen had been president of Dow Jones and COO if its Consumer Media Group, while Pearlstine had been managing editor and executive editor of the WSJ and later launched Dow Jones’ SmartMoney.)

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