Barry Malone has been named deputy editor-in-chief at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, based in London.
He joins from Al Jazeera, where he was an executive producer of The Stream, a social media community with its own TV show. Before that, he served as a deputy online editor and then as an online editor at Al Jazeera English.
He has also served as Ethiopia and the African Union correspondent, Uganda correspondent, editor/reporter/acting deputy bureau chief and then as a roving correspondent at Reuters.
He has written for several major newspapers, magazines and websites, including the Irish Times.
Malone graduated from the University of West London.
