15 Facts About John Huey

John Huey is an American journalist and publishing executive who served as the editor-in-chief of Time Inc.

John Huey 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.

John Huey co-authored the best-selling autobiography of Walmart founder Sam Walton.

John Huey returned to the United States in 1985 to become a senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal.

In 1988, John Huey joined Fortune as a senior editor in the Atlanta bureau.

In 1989, John Huey convinced the reclusive Walmart founder Sam Walton to give a rare interview to Fortune Magazine.

That interview eventually led to John Huey co-authoring the autobiography Sam Walton: Made in America.

John Huey moved his office to New York in 1994 to become the deputy to Fortune editor Walter Kiechel.

John Huey was named Editor of the Year by Advertising Age in 1996 and by Adweek in 1998.

In 2001, Time Inc created the Fortune Group and John Huey was placed in charge of Fortune, Money, Business 2.0, Fortune Small Business and Mutual Fund magazine.

John Huey took the top editorial job at Time Inc in 2006, becoming the company's sixth editor in chief since it was founded, with oversight of 3500 journalists.

In 2009, during the Great Recession, John Huey had Time Inc buy a house in the very depressed city of Detroit and staffed it up with reporters to cover the city for multiple Time Inc publications.

However, while the company was earning more than a billion dollars of profit on $5.6 billion of revenue when John 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.

In 2013, John Huey received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

John Huey served as member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the advisory board of the Poynter Institute and the Peabody Awards.