Fortune CEO Murray discusses changes to website, print publication

Fortune CEO Alan Murray spoke with Cheddar about the changes at the 90-year-old magazine, including the addition of a paywall.

“We’ve increased our reporting staff by 40 percent over the course of the year,” said Murray. “…We believe that people are ready to pay for that.”

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.