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...Norm thanks for a great deal, perhaps most for the boldness of his imagination. From the moment he arrived at the top of America's largest, most successful magazine publisher, he thought only of how to make it better and bigger. I mentioned those 154 magazines. When he got here, there were 21. Norm managed scores of acquisitions and start-ups to help make Time Inc. a far more global enterprise in the era of the global economy...
...Just one example: his knowledge of blues and jazz is so authoritative that he once published his ranking of the 20 best recordings of Stormy Monday Blues. His remarkable combination of traits is why the people who judge magazine editing most critically, the American Society of Magazine Editors, gave Norm their lifetime achievement award...
...Norm's most inspired choices was naming John Huey managing editor of FORTUNE in 1995. John is a native Atlantan who served as a Navy intelligence officer, then began his journalism career in classic fashion at a small-town weekly, the DeKalb New Era. From there it was on to the Atlanta Constitution, and then the Wall Street Journal, where he got to know Norm. Together they helped launch the Journal's European edition in the early '80s. John came to FORTUNE as a writer in 1988. When Norm joined Time Inc. as editor-in-chief seven years later...
...legendary substance. The magazine attracted hordes of new readers, including record numbers of women, and John won all kinds of industry honors along the way. In 2001 he moved up to become Time Inc.'s editorial director, the No. 2 editorial position in the company, working with Norm...
...know John will make a great editor-in-chief. He is unsurpassed anywhere as a judge of talent. He is passionate about storytelling and making our product utterly compelling. He has an amazing ability to execute--to make his dreams and ideas actually happen. And like Norm, he can see earlier than most people where the world is heading. That gift will help him find ever more ways to deliver our editorial product, not just in magazines but also through a multiplying array of digital media...