Alan Hughes is the editorial director, business/finance for BLACK ENTERPRISE. An award-winning journalist with 20 years in the field, he’s a vital member of the editorial management team. Hughes oversees news, business, entrepreneurship, and technology content for BLACK ENTERPRISE print, online, and broadcast media properties.
Hughes also directs the editorial coverage of BLACK ENTERPRISE’s June issue, which ranks America’s largest black-owned businesses and examines the growth and impact of those BE 100 companies each year. Once a year, Hughes organizes and moderates the annual roundtable meeting of the Black Enterprise Board of Economists, a gathering of the nation’s leading African American economists.
Hughes joined BLACK ENTERPRISE in October 2001 as the business editor and later spent three years as a features editor before being promoted to managing editor in 2006 and Editorial Director in 2007. Earlier in his career, he was an editor at BusinessWeek Online, developing, writing, and editing articles for the publication’s Website. He also covered financial markets, writing a twice-weekly overview of the stock and bond markets. Prior to that, Hughes spent six years analyzing financial markets for Standard & Poor's, the preeminent provider of financial services information. He began his career as a local news editor at The Hudson Dispatch in Union City, New Jersey.
A New York City native, Hughes is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
