Banking reporter Freed leaves Reuters
Reuters banking reporter Dan Freed has left the news organization after two and a half years. Freed has been hired as a director at D.S. Wolf Group International, which is based in New York and works with financial companies. “Reuters is an outstanding news organization, and it wasn’t an easy decision to leave, but after […]
Reuters seeks Ottawa correspondent
Reuters is looking for an ambitious and dynamic journalist to join our team in Ottawa. The successful candidate must have a proven track record of breaking exclusive news and of longer-format reporting and writing, as well as an aptitude for multimedia story-telling. He or she will have strong source building skills and the ability to […]
Reuters editor Adler calls for immediate release of two reporters
Reuters president and editor-in-chief Stephen J. Adler sent out the following message regarding the two Reuters journalists arrested in Myanmar: It has been a week since Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested. We and their families continue to be denied access to them or to the most basic information about their […]
Reuters journalists ratify new contract
Unionized journalists and media employees at the Thomson Reuters unit of the NewsGuild of New York have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new contract with Thomson Reuters. The new agreement, which remains in effect through December 2020, comes after three years of intense negotiations with management. During that time Guild members worked without the benefit of […]
Two Reuters journalists arrested in Mynamar
Two Reuters journalists have been arrested in Myanmar and accused of illegally possessing government documents. Richard C. Paddock of the New York Times reports, “The two reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were arrested Tuesday night in northern Yangon. They were said to have documents relating to violence in Rakhine State in western Myanmar. […]
NY Times hires Flitter as banking reporter
New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following announcement on Monday: We are excited to announce that Emily Flitter has joined Business Day as a banking reporter. Emily comes to us from Reuters, where she has pretty much covered everything in her eight years there – from the Treasury market and the Trump campaign to climate […]
Reuters adds to its deals reporting team
Greg Roumeliotis, who oversees mergers and acquisitions coverage at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Friday: I’m pleased to announce new additions to the U.S. deals team: Joshua Franklin is our new private equity and IPO reporter. He joins us from the Reuters bureau in Zurich, where he covered Swiss investment banks as well […]
Duguid moving to financial markets team at Reuters
Dan Burns, the financial markets editor at Reuters, sent out the following announcement: Hey gang, I am very pleased to announce that Breakingviews’ Kate Duguid will be joining the New York financial markets team covering the U.S. Treasury and global foreign exchange markets. Kate fills a key vacancy left by Sam Forgione, who left Reuters […]
Gebrekidan of Reuters hired by New York Times
Selam Gebrekidan, an enterprise reporter for Reuters in London, has been hired by the New York Times as an international reporter. She studied at Columbia University, covered the oil industry in the U.S., and is a winner of the Daniel Pearl Prize for Investigative Reporting. She will remain based in London. At Reuters, Gebrekidan spent […]
Reuters hires Farrell as new Jerusalem bureau chief
Middle East editor Samia Nakhoul of Reuters, and Simon Robinson, the regional editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Comrades: We’re delighted to announce that award-winning foreign correspondent and video journalist Stephen Farrell has been appointed Jerusalem bureau chief, leading our coverage of Israel and the Palestinian territories. Stephen has spent […]
