by Jeroslyn JoVonn
July 28, 2025
Cori Murray is bringing her award-winning storytelling abilities to EBONY Journal’s government group.
Award-winning journalist Cori Murray is becoming a member of EBONY Journal because the legacy model’s latest government vp of Editorial Content material.
After 23 years at ESSENCE, together with a two-year run because the journal’s Deputy Editor from 2020 to 2022, Murray is taking her skills to EBONY, the place she’ll function a “proud steward” in “transferring Black ahead,” she shared in an Instagram announcement.
“Eighty years in the past, John H. Johnson and his spouse Eunice Johnson constructed @ebonymagazine to amplify Black tales,” Murray wrote. “At present, 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. Keep tuned for what’s forward!”
A 2022 recipient of Black Girls in Movie’s ElevatHER Award for her dedication to telling “the untold tales of Black girls,” Murray has devoted herself to the artwork of journalism with a particular concentrate on Black tradition. Beneath Murray’s management, ESSENCE made historical past by profitable its first American Society for Journal Editors Nationwide Journal Award for Images in April 2022 and that includes a same-sex couple on its cowl for the primary time in its 52-year historical past.
Murray’s artistic contact formed ESSENCE’s Black Girls in Hollywood Awards and its Oscars’ Week occasions, whereas her insights on the model’s cultural impression had been featured within the OWN docuseries Time of Essence and the two-time Webby-nominated Sure Lady! podcast. A revered cultural critic and member of the African American Movie Critics Affiliation, the Hampton College graduate has shared her experience on Good Morning America, Entry Hollywood, CNN, and MSNBC, and has additionally appeared in Ava DuVernay’s 2010 documentary My Mic Sounds Good: A Fact About Girls in Hip Hop.
A real cowl story powerhouse, Murray has penned standout options for InStyle, Girls’s Well being, and EBONY, whereas additionally contributing to The Hollywood Reporter, Emmys.com, Condominium Remedy, and WWD’s Magnificence Insider. Most lately, she featured the legendary Angela Bassett on the quilt of EBONY in Could, a style of the star energy and storytelling she’s set to usher in her new management position.
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