Who

A self-styled swashbuckler, Huey has been the editor-in-chief of Time Inc. since 2006.

Backstory

A onetime intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy and a native of Atlanta, Huey started his career at a small Georgia newspaper before joining the Dallas bureau of the Wall Street Journal in the mid-1970s. In the late '80s, he joined Fortune and forged close ties with Time Inc.'s longtime chief Norm Pearlstine, who promoted him quickly through the organization. By 1997, Huey was running Fortune during a rather fortuitous era to be in charge of a business magazine. (Although he's often given sole credit for Fortune's strong run in the 1990s, it was a time when you could publish almost anything and still sell a boatload of ads in the business press.) In 2001, Pearlstine named him Time's editorial director. Following Pearlstine's retirement in 2006, Huey was named editor-in-chief.

Of note

Publishing isn't the business it used to be and over the past year, Time Inc. has been through a series of budget cuts as it looks to make up for revenue shortfalls. A number of titles have been closed; a handful of others have been sold off. But Huey has soldiered on, and has made moves to beef up the most profitable titles. In 2006, he named protégé and long-time columnist Andy Serwer as the managing editor of Fortune, a move intended to shore up the magazine's defenses in the face of increased competition. (Fortunately for Huey, one of Fortune's potential competitors, Condé Nast Portfolio, has largely turned out to be a failure, a development that should come as some relief.) Huey also made some changes at Time, promoting editor-in-chief Jim Kelly up to corporate as managing editor of Time Inc.

Perhaps the biggest challenge now facing Huey and his boss, Time Inc. CEO Ann S. Moore, is beefing up the company's online properties, particularly as more ad revenue is directed away from print and invested in the web. But while the Time Inc.'s core sites—those associated with Time and Sports Illustrated, for example—continue to lead their respective categories, their efforts to create standalone brands haven't been as successful. One early effort, OfficePirates.com, was launched in February 2006 and shuttered less than seven months later.

In print

In 1992, Huey co-authored Sam Walton: Made in America, an autobiography of the late founder of Wal-Mart.

Personal

Huey's married to Kate Ellis, his third wife. He has a son with Ellis named Cole and another son, Jake, with his previous wife. Although he stays in an apartment on West 57th Street near Time Inc.'s offices during the week, he still travels home to South Carolina most weekends.