Alan Murray to give Park Lecture April 2

Alan Murray, a deputy managing editor and executive editor for online of The Wall Street Journal, will deliver the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, April 2, at 5:30 p.m. in the Carroll Hall auditorium.

Murray’s lecture, “The Future of Newspapers: Some Light at the End of a Very Long Tunnel,” is free and open to the public.

Murray, a UNC alumnus, was named a deputy managing editor at the WSJ in June 2008. He also serves as executive editor online. Prior, he wrote the award-winning “Business” column for the newspaper, which he joined in 1983. He was named the WSJ Washington, D.C., bureau chief in 1993, and during his tenure, the bureau staff won three Pulitzer Prizes.

He is a regular contributor to CNBC, where from 2002-2004 he served as the organization’s Washington, D.C., bureau chief and co-hosted the nightly TV show, “Capital Report with Alan Murray and Gloria Borger.”

Murray is the author of several books, the most recent titled “Revolt in the Board Room: The New Rules of Power in Corporate America.”

Murray has served on the Board of Visitors of the University of North Carolina. He serves on the governing council of the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and is a member of the Gridiron Club, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York.

Murray received his bachelor’s degree in English from UNC, where he was a Morehead Scholar, a merit scholar and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a master’s degree in economics at the London School of Economics. In 2005, he completed the Stanford Executive Program at the school’s Graduate School of Business.

He is married to Lori Murray, a foreign policy consultant and former special adviser to the president for chemical weapons and former assistant director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. They live in Greenwich, Conn., with their two children.