Murray to lead Dow Jones leadership program

Former Fortune CEO Alan Murray has been hired to lead a new venture called the Dow Jones Leadership Institute, which will provide C-suite executives with services, reports Sara Fischer of Axios.

Fischer reports that it will “help navigate today’s ever-changing business climate, including executive education and coaching, real-time data and analysis, and peer-to-peer information.

“The new unit will be led by Alan Murray, a long-time veteran of the Wall Street Journal who most recently served as CEO of Fortune Media.

“At Fortune, Murray authored a newsletter, CEO Daily, that catered to top executives. He oversaw Fortune’s live conference expansion across new topics such as AI, health and new business leaders.

“The big picture: Under CEO Almar Latour’s leadership for the past four years, Dow Jones has doubled its digital news subscription footprint. Latour hopes to build on that success by developing a stronger network among its readers in executive leadership roles.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.