Larsen named global editor of Reuters Breakingviews

Peter Thal Larsen

Reuters announced Sunday the appointment of Peter Thal Larsen as global editor of Breakingviews, the international commentary arm of Reuters News.

Larsen joined Breakingviews in 2009. He led coverage of financial services from London before moving to Hong Kong as Asia Editor in 2012. There he built up the local team and launched the Asian edition of Breakingviews. Since 2017, he has led the team in Europe as EMEA editor.

In a message to staff, Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni said that “Peter’s plans for Breakingviews include expanding its in-depth commentary to offer a more forward-looking and market-oriented perspective for its readers, supplementing its swift and authoritative analysis of breaking financial and business stories.”

Prior to joining Reuters, Larsen spent a decade at the Financial Times in London and New York, where he was part of the team covering the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

As banking editor, he led the paper’s award-winning coverage of the global financial crisis.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.