John Huey

John Huey (born April 18, 1948) is an American journalist and publishing executive who served as the editor-in-chief of Time Inc., at the time the largest magazine publisher in the United States, overseeing more than 150 titles, including Time, People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly and InStyle. He previously served as the editor of Fortune, Atlanta bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal and founding managing editor, and later editor, of The Wall Street Journal Europe. He co-authored the best-selling autobiography of Walmart founder Sam Walton.

Early life The son of John W. Huey and Helen Cahill Huey, Huey attended North Fulton High School, and then the University of Georgia, graduating in 1970. he became a reporter for the Dekalb New Era, a local weekly newspaper in Georgia. After covering the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, Huey became Atlanta bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. In 1989, Huey convinced the reclusive Walmart founder Sam Walton to give a rare interview to Fortune Magazine. That interview eventually led to Huey co-authoring the autobiography Sam Walton: Made in America. Walton died before the book was published, Lori Robertson New writers included Joe Nocera, Nina Munk, Stanley Bing, and Stewart Alsop. And he was credited with featuring more women

He took the top editorial job at Time Inc. in 2006, becoming the company's sixth editor in chief since it was founded, As editor-in-chief, he created the CNNMoney website with Turner Broadcasting System, combining editorial content from CNN, Fortune and Money. The website ended up making more money than both magazines. In an interview with New York Magazine after becoming editor-in-chief, Huey described Time Inc. as having a "public trust." "Some magazines have importance beyond profitability," he said. However, while the company was earning more than a billion dollars of profit on $5.6 billion of revenue when Huey became editor-in-chief, the seven-years of his tenure was a period of rapid contraction of the magazine industry and he laid off almost a third of the staff from core Time Inc. magazines such as Time, People, Fortune and Money. the Columbia Journalism Review reported that Huey tweeted "R.I.P. Time Inc. The 95-year run is over.”

Subsequent career Huey became a 2013 Shorenstein Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The oral history project included interviews with 61 media and technology leaders about disruption in the news business. In 2013, Huey received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Huey served as member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the advisory board of the Poynter Institute He hosted the Whole Hog podcast, about Southern culture, for Garden & Gun.

Personal life Huey is married to Kate Ellis Huey. He has two children. In the 11 years he ran editorial operations for Time Inc., he commuted from his home in Charleston, South Carolina, spending weekdays in New York and weekends in Charleston.