Alan Murray

Assistant Managing Editor
The Wall Street Journal

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Alan Murray re-joined the staff of The Wall Street Journal as Assistant Managing Editor in 2005, with responsibilities that include writing twice-weekly columns on business, the economy and public policy.

Prior to that, he was the Washington Bureau chief for the cable financial news channel CNBC. In addition to his duties as bureau chief, Murray hosted the program "Capital Report"

Prior to joining CNBC in early 2002, Murray was the Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.

Alan Murray joined the Wall Street Journal in November 1983 as a reporter covering economics in Washington. Named Washington deputy bureau chief in January 1992, he continued to cover major economics stories and periodically wrote the paper's "Outlook" column. He became bureau chief in September 1993.

Mr. Murray began his journalism career in June 1977 as the business and economics editor of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times. He joined Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C. as a reporter in June 1980 and the following year became a reporter at the Japan Economic Journal, in Tokyo, on a Luce fellowship. He returned to Congressional Quarterly in September 1982.

Murray and then-Journal reporter Jeffrey Birnbaum wrote Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform, published in 1987 by Random House. They were awarded the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award for the book in 1998.

Mr. Murray has won two Overseas Press Club awards (1991 & 1997) for his writings on Asia. In 1992, he received the Gerald Loeb Award and the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism for his coverage of the Federal Reserve.

Mr. Murray serves on the The Governing Council of the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and on the Board of Visitors at the University of North Carolina.

Born in Akron, Ohio, Mr. Murray received a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of North Carolina, where he was a John Motley Morehead scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a master's degree at the London School of Economics.

Mr. Murray and his wife live in suburban Maryland with their two daughters.

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