Congratulations are to ensure that award-winning journalist, editor and multi-platform story-teller Cori Murray.
On July 1, Murray introduced that she can be becoming a member of EBONY Journal as its new Govt Vice President of Editorial Content material, including one other accomplishment to her unbelievable resume. A graduate of Hampton College, the esteemed author spent 22 years at ESSENCE, together with two because the journal’s Deputy Editor from 2020 to 2022, the place she oversaw each the digital and print platforms serving an viewers of 31 million Black girls, based on her web site.
Below her editorial management, ESSENCE earned its first Nationwide Journal Award from the American Society of Journal Editors for Pictures in April 2022. She additionally made historical past by that includes a same-sex couple on the journal’s cowl — a primary in its 52-year legacy — amongst many different landmark achievements.
Now, she’s able to make HER-story at EBONY.
“Eighty years in the past, John H. Johnson and his spouse Eunice Johnson constructed @ebonymagazine to amplify Black tales. Right now, in my new position as EVP, editorial content material, I’m a proud steward of this legacy model because it continues chronicling our voices and transferring Black ahead,” Murray wrote in an Instagram publish shared Tuesday. “Keep tuned for what’s forward!”
Murray’s unbelievable profession.
For a decade, Murray led programming for the Black Girls in Hollywood awards and served as co-producer of the model’s annual Oscars Week occasion. In recognition of her dedication to amplifying Black girls’s voices, she acquired the ElevatHER Award from the Black Girls Movie Community in March 2022, honoring her work to champion and protect the untold tales of Black girls.
Murray is a proud member of the African American Movie Critics Affiliation and a acknowledged voice in cultural commentary. Her on-screen presence features a featured position within the current OWN docuseries Time of Essence, in addition to appearances on nationwide platforms resembling Good Morning America, Entry Hollywood, CNN, and MSNBC. She additionally lent her insights to Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed 2010 documentary, My Mic Sounds Good: A Fact About Girls in Hip Hop, solidifying her position as a trusted commentator on the intersections of tradition, media, and illustration.
Murray’s bylines have graced the covers of InStyle, Girls’s Well being, The Hollywood Reporter, our sister website HelloBeautiful, and EBONY, the place she’s now a contributing pressure. In Could, the Brooklyn-based journalist wrote a robust cowl story for EBONY, interviewing the legendary Angela Bassett about her position as fictional president Erika Sloane in Mission: Not possible – The Remaining Reckoning.
She was additionally the mighty pen behind EBONY’s acclaimed 2022 characteristic on Black Panther: Wakanda Endlessly, providing a deeply human look into the solid’s emotional return to set following the passing of Chadwick Boseman. In a transferring, in-depth dialog, the movie’s solid, Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, and Dominique Thorne mirrored on honoring Boseman’s legacy whereas persevering with Marvel’s celebrated saga.
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