Reuters global tech editor Kenneth Li sent out the following on Monday morning:
All,
I’m very pleased to announce that Deepa Seetharaman is returning to Reuters as a Tech Correspondent, based in San Francisco.
For Deepa, this marks a homecoming. She began her career at Reuters in New York and covered the U.S. autos in Detroit before moving to San Francisco to report on Amazon, building a reputation for breaking news and delivering ambitious stories at the heart of America’s biggest companies. She went on to spend a decade at the Wall Street Journal, where she covered some of the most consequential developments in technology, politics, and society.
At the Journal, Deepa was the lead reporter on Facebook (now Meta), where her coverage explored the company’s business, culture, and influence. Her reporting included coverage of Instagram’s impact on teenage girls and investigations into how AI systems falter in moderating racist and hateful content. More recently, she turned her focus to artificial intelligence, chronicling how advances in the technology are reshaping business models, political discourse, and cultural norms.
At Reuters, Deepa will focus on AI and OpenAI at a time when the technology is at an inflection point. With breakthroughs harder to achieve and investors pressing for returns, her work will span cutting-edge research, the strategies of the most powerful tech companies, and the global implications of AI’s rise. She will report to me and work closely with our global technology team as well as Steve Stecklow and the enterprise team. Her return also reunites her with Jeff Horwitz, who joined our San Francisco bureau in June. She starts today.
Deepa’s work has earned some of journalism’s most prestigious awards. She was part of a team that won the George Polk Award for Business Reporting and the Gerald Loeb Award in Beat Reporting.
Please join me in welcoming Deepa back to Reuters.
Ken
