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| Alan Murray |
Fortune CEO Alan Murray is stepping down at the end of April 2024. Murray, who joined Fortune as top editor in 2014, saw the magazine through its 2017 sale as part of Time Inc.’s deal with Meredith, as well as its subsequent establishment as a stand-alone company after being sold for $150 million to Thai entrepreneur Chatchaval Jiaravanon. Murray then became its chief executive. Before coming to Fortune, Murray led the Pew Research Foundation and worked at the Wall Street Journal for nearly 20 years. In a memo to staff, Murray said that during his tenure, Fortune “grew our digital audience by 6X, increased our revenues by 50%, and produced three straight years of profits, while incubating new business.” He said he had no plans to retire after he stepped down and that Jiaravanon had asked him to consider staying on in a different role.
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| Campbell Brown |
Campbell Brown, who has been the face of the news business at Meta since coming on as Facebook VP of global news partnerships in 2017, is exiting the company. While Brown says that she will “remain affiliated with Meta in a new consultant capacity,” she added that more information about her new role with the company will be released in the coming weeks. After working on air for both NBC News and CNN, Brown co-founded The 74 Media, a nonprofit media company focused on education in America, in 2012. She was brought to Facebook in attempt to strengthen its ties with the news industry and oversaw partnerships with news organizations that used the platform, as well as piloting such initiatives as Facebook News and the newsletter Bulletin. As Meta’s focus on news has lessened, Brown’s role has shifted. She took on the title of VP of media partnerships last year, which has a scope covering sports leagues, film studios and digital media companies, in addition to news publishers.
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| Kiasia Truluck |
TIME promotes Kiasia Truluck to director, communications. Truluck was previously a senior manager. Prior to joining TIME, she held positions at Metro PR and Dan Klores Communications. In her new position, Truluck will lead strategic communications for TIME Studios, the company’s film and television division TIME Studios. She also leads oversees media relations and publicity efforts for TIME’s journalism and breaking news content, global live events, and major corporate announcements and brand partnerships.
Michael Kaminer, who was responsible for the Observer’s “Power List” for the past 13 years, has cut ties with the publication... The New York Times Company continues the march toward its goal of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is providing more than $6 million in funding to eight organizations working to address the challenges local news and information environments face along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Conservative outlets Fox News, Newsmax and the Daily Caller are holding back from signing Pete Hegseth’s edict restricting press access in the Pentagon... CBS News sees the first executive departure of the Bari Weiss era as head of standards and practices Claudia Milne exits... Indiana University shuts down the print version of The Indiana Daily Student.
Rothschild family plans to unload 26.7 percent stake in The Economist... STAT, a digital media company that focuses the life sciences, brings back Damian Garde, who anchored its biotech newsletter and podcast from 2016 to 2024... High Times officially resumes print publication (following its 2024 shutdown) with the release of a limited-edition, collectible 50th anniversary issue. 
CBS News is set to hand over its reins to The Free Press co-founder Bari Weiss as Paramount acquires her site for $155M... C-SPAN comes on board as an official media partner of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which is charged by Congress to lead the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence... A new Gallup survey says that the level of trust that US audiences have in the media has hit a new low.
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has named Kenneth Weinstein, former head of the conservative Hudson Institute, as ombudsman for CBS News.
