Saba joining Reuters Breakingviews
Jeffrey Goldfarb, U.S. editor for Reuters Breakingviews, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: I am pleased to announce that Jen Saba is joining the Breakingviews team in New York after five years in the Reuters newsroom. She brings with her more than 15 years of experience covering the business end of the publishing, advertising […]
Damouni, ex Reuters, joining Edelman
Nadia Damouni, who left Reuters last week, has been hired as senior vice president of Edelman in its financial communications and special situations offering. Damouni will start in her new role later in June and will report to Lex Suvanto, managing director of Edelman’s financial communications and special situations offering. She will be based in […]
Reuters seeks oil reporter in Houston
Reuters is seeking a sharply focused, relentlessly driven journalist who is passionate about breaking news to join the U.S. energy team, helping cover the decade’s most important story: the shale oil revolution that has redrawn domestic and international crude trade. The position will focus on uncovering news about the people and infrastructure moving and processing […]
M&A editor Damouni leaving Reuters for PR
Greg Roumeliotis, editor in charge of mergers and acquisitions reporting at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Friday: I’m sorry to announce that Nadia Damouni is leaving Reuters to join one of the world’s largest public relations firms. Her last day with the company is June 10. Nadia joined us five years ago in […]
Reuters seeks company news reporter in Saudi Arabia
Reuters is seeking an Arabic-speaking correspondent to cover company news in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom is by far the largest economy in the Middle East and is home to some world-class companies – and not just in the oil and oil-related industries that many might expect. Some may not be household names outside of the […]
Gaines, former Reuters Americas editor, joins The Atlantic
Jim Gaines, a former global editor at large and Americas editor at Reuters, has joined The Atlantic’s creative marketing group, Re:think, as director of content. Gaines will oversee all content for the group, which creates native advertising and branded content campaigns in the spirit of The Atlantic’s mission to publish ideas-rich journalism. “Jim brings expertise, […]
Reuters seeks editor for its U.S. website
Reuters is seeking an online editor to work on its main U.S. website. The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of journalism experience, solid writing and editing skills, a demonstrable bent towards business news and a facility with social media and publishing tools. A Reuters.com online editor’s responsibilities run from building multimedia modules and enhanced article […]
Reuters CEO: Adopt technology or die
Jim Smith, president and chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters, talked McKinsey’s Rik Kirkland about the company’s strategy. Here is an excerpt: That challenges an organization like ours that’s grown through the green-screen days and is very focused on getting the information exactly right—the way some consumer folks have learned—and not so much on the […]
Reuters News names global head of sales
Steven Schwartz, global managing director of Reuters News, sent out the following announcement on Thursday: Last December, I announced a restructure of News Agency & Content Solutions, which included a to-be-appointed global head of sales for News Agency. Today I am very pleased to announce that we have promoted Anita Tobias to serve in this […]
Reuters losing two journalists in Brazil
Kieran Murray, news editor for Latin America and the Caribbean at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Thursday morning: I regret to announce that Todd Benson and Brian Winter, who have led a great news file out of Brazil in the last few years, are both leaving Reuters in June. Todd is taking a senior […]
