Murray has been a reporter at the Journal since 1994. He began in the
Pittsburgh bureau, and joined the money and investing section in 1997, covering banking. He was deputy managing editor, then executive editor.[1][2]
Editor in chief
On June 5, 2018, Murray was named editor in chief, succeeding
Gerard Baker, and assumed his new role on June 11.[3]
As editor in chief, Murray oversaw the Wall Street Journal investigations into Michael Cohen and the
Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal that led to the Journal's Pulitzer win in 2019.[4][5]
In February 2020, amid backlash from the Chinese government regarding the headline of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Murray agreed with the complaints but could not take any action due to the separation between news and opinion at the paper.[6]
In the wake of the
murder of George Floyd and
subsequent protests, journalists at the Journal sent multiple letters to Murray lamenting the paper's lack of diversity as well as demanding changes to the way the paper covers race, policing and finance.[7][8]