Angela Burt-Murray Named Editor-in-Chief of Essence

Posted on July 31, 2005

Angela Burt-Murray has been named editor-in-chief of Essence magazine, it was announced by Susan L. Taylor, editorial director of Essence Communications, Inc. Burt-Murray, who was at Essence from 1998 to 2001, most recently has been executive editor of Teen People since 2003. She will now oversee the editorial content of Essence, a lifestyle magazine for African-American women. Burt-Murray is the co-author, along with Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller, of the humor book The Angry Black Woman's Guide to Life (Dutton), and the forthcoming novel, The Vow (HarperCollins/Amistad).