Two biz journalists named to NC Journalism Hall of Fame

Two famous business journalists — one for helping blaze a trail for women — have been named to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame.

Wyndham Robertson is the former assistant managing editor of Fortune magazine and former business editor of Time magazine.

After graduating from Hollins College with an economics degree, Robertson worked as a junior analyst in the Economics Department of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey before joining Fortune as a researcher and reporter in 1961.

She was elected to Fortune’s board of editors in 1974 and was named assistant managing editor in 1981. She served as business editor of Time magazine from 1982-83 as part of an experimental program in which six Time Inc. editors temporarily switched magazines.

Her work has been honored with awards that include the Gerald M. Loeb Achievement Award for Distinguished Writing on Investment, Finance and Business and the American Journalism Historians Association Award for Breaking Gender Barriers in Journalism and Communication, among others.

Alan Murray, a journalism inductee, is the president of the Pew Research Center. He leads in setting the strategic direction of Pew Research, in consultation with Pew Research leadership, its board and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Murray was previously deputy managing editor and executive editor, online, for The Wall Street Journal.

He previously served as CNBC’s Washington, D.C., bureau chief and was co-host of “Capital Report with Alan Murray and Gloria Borger.”

While working at CNBC, he wrote the Journal’s weekly “Political Capital” column. Prior to that, he spent a decade as the Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal.

Murray received a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.

See all of the inductees here.