Reuters global enterprise editor Mike Williams recently sent out the following note to the staff:
All,
I’m excited to announce that Jeff Horwitz is joining Reuters in the new role of tech investigations reporter.
Jeff joins us from the Wall Street Journal, where he led the reporting on the Facebook Files, a 2021 series that exposed how Meta was aware that its social-media platforms were harming teenage girls and other users but failed to take action. The series won a George Polk Award and a Gerald Loeb Award. Last year, Jeff shared a Loeb Award for “The Dark Side of Meta’s Algorithms,” a series that revealed how Instagram and Facebook connected networks of pedophiles and served them disturbing content.
Based in the San Francisco area, Jeff will focus on technology, ranging from deep dives inside the world’s most powerful tech companies to explorations of their influence in the worlds of politics and finance. He will report to Steve Stecklow, who recently relocated to the Bay Area from London, and will work closely with Global Technology Industry Editor Ken Li and his team. Jeff will begin in June.
Jeff previously was a financial and enterprise reporter for the Associated Press in Washington, where he broke stories about how former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had secretly worked to advance Russian interests. He has also worked for American Banker, Legal Times, the San Bernardino Sun and the Washington City Paper, and was a freelance reporter in Rwanda. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Pomona College.
Please join me in welcoming Jeff to Reuters and wishing him success in this important new role.
