Media Movers: Lauren Young, Reuters rock star
Lauren Young knows readers are everywhere. Her audience is, as she puts it, the world. This tells me that she’s in the right field. When you’re a journalist, hunting for stories is part of your DNA. They’re waiting to be discovered on the weekends. On vacation. While exercising. Her energy and passion led her to […]
Kouam joins Reuters as a visual producer
Joel Honoré Kouam has joined Reuters as West and Central Africa visual producer. Recently, he was a freelance video producer at The Associated Press. Previously, Kouam was a correspondent at Africanews. He also worked at the BBC. Connect with Kouam on Twitter.
Reuters hires Lombardi as an energy and climate reporter
Pietro Lombardi has joined Reuters as an energy and climate reporter, based in Madrid, Spain. Recently, he was a competition reporter at Politico. Prior to joining Politico, Lombardi was a senior reporter at Dow Jones Newswires and a contributor at The Wall Street Journal. He worked as a data journalist and reporter at Thomson Reuters […]
Reuters Breakingviews hires Daga as Asia columnist
Reuters Breakingviews Asia Editor Una Galani shared the following message with staff: I’m thrilled to announce a new addition to the Breakingviews team. Anshuman Daga will be our Asia columnist in Singapore, starting on April 1. He is currently senior financial correspondent on Reuters Asia Finance team, where he has covered Ping An’s call for […]
Reuters appoints Saito as an enterprise reporter
Mari Saito, a special correspondent at Reuters has taken over the role of reporter on the enterprise team. Previously, she was a correspondent, based in Japan, where she wrote enterprise and investigative stories. From July 2010 to July 2016, she was a reporter at Reuters, working stints from Tokyo, San Francisco and the Washington, D.C. […]
Reid to cover European retail for Reuters
Reuters has tapped Helen Reid to cover European retail news. She is based in London. Reid previously was pan-African mining correspondent and she previously was in London covering the stock market. Reid has been with Reuters since August 2016. She previously worked for TXF: Trade and Export Finance as a reporter and African Arguments as an editorial intern. She […]
Ramadan becomes breaking news reporter for Reuters
Reuters has hired Tala Ramadan as a breaking news reporter for the Middle East and North Africa. She has spent the last year at the Thomson Reuters Foundation as a Lebanon correspondent. Ramadan previously worked at L’Orient Today and at Al Arabiya English. She also was an editor at Beirut.com and a news editor at […]
Identities of Reuters journalists faked in social media accounts
Two Reuters journalists had their identities faked by an unknown person or people who then used sham social media accounts to engage with Chinese activists, reports James Pomfret of Reuters. Pomfret reports, “The false representations of the two journalists, Shanghai bureau chief Brenda Goh and Hong Kong-based correspondent Jessie Pang, starting in late November, appeared on platforms […]
Reuters, BuzzFeed win Polk Awards for biz stories
Joshua Schneyer, Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke of Reuters won a George Polk Award for revealing how staffing agencies in Alabama cashed in on lucrative commissions in a tight labor market by using fake documentation to put migrant children as young as 12 to work in Hyundai auto parts factories and poultry slaughterhouses, subjecting them […]
Reuters hires Caldas as section editor
Edson Caldas has joined Reuters as a section editor working on the environment coverage. He will also be one of the journalists writing the Reuters Daily Briefing. Caldas will be based in London. Recently, Caldas served as deputy content curation lead for global news at Twitter. There, he also held the posts of content curator, […]
