Kaiser Health reporter Taylor moves to Reuters
Marisa Taylor, who formerly held the post of senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News, has moved to join Reuters. There, she will be investigating and covering health care issues. Before joining KH News, Taylor held the posts of national correspondent and investigative reporter at McClatchy Newspapers. Before that, she was a reporter at both The […]
Reuters hires WSJ’s Iosebashvili to be an editor
Reuters has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Ira Iosebashvili to be an editor on its U.S. markets team. He starts Monday. He has been a foreign exchange and commodities reporter for The Journal since August 2012. Before that, Iosebashvili covered the economy for three years for the paper. In that job, he covered the Russian […]
Reuters names Brock its special correspondent for Southeast Asia
Matthew Tostevin, Southeast Asia editor for Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Thursday: I am pleased to announce that Joe Brock is starting a new role as Special Correspondent, Southeast Asia. In this position, he will help to drive initiative reporting from the region – where he has been taking a lead since moving to Singapore […]
Reuters seeks editor to oversee climate change coverage
Reuters is looking for an editor to run our coverage of climate change. This is a global role of huge importance. The successful candidate will connect the dots between the great work we’re doing on beats such as the energy transition and climate finance, drive ambitious new coverage on regulation and solutions, and infuse deeper thinking […]
Reuters lays out plans for 2020 election coverage
Alessandra Galloni, global managing editor at Reuters, sent out the following announcement to the staff: One of the biggest stories Reuters will cover in 2020 is the U.S. Presidential election. It is an exciting and important event for our global newsroom. Donald Trump, the Republican president running for a second term, has changed the way […]
Reuters seeks a retail reporter
Reuters is seeking an experienced business journalist to produce exclusives and deeply reported stories on major retailers from Amazon to Walmart. The job provides an excellent opportunity to shape what readers think about some of the best-known companies in the world. The reporter should have a radar for shifts in consumer habits and tastes that […]
Marques departs Reuters Breakingviews for Bloomberg Opinion
Clara Ferreira Marques, a Reuters Breakingviews associate editor, is leaving to join Bloomberg Opinion. At Bloomberg Opinion, she will write about commodities and ESG. Marques was based in Hong Kong for Breakingviews. While there, she wrote about commodities, energy, and the business, finance and politics of southeast Asia. She joined in November 2017 from Reuters, […]
More than 200 Reuters stories blocked in China
The financial information provider that distributes Reuters news to investors has blocked over 200 stories on the mainland that could paint Beijing in a negative light, reports Steve Stecklow of Reuters. Stecklow reports, “It wasn’t the Chinese government that blocked the story. The article was removed by Refinitiv, the financial information provider that distributes Reuters news to […]
How Reuters worked sources and documents to report on baby powder issues
Last week, a Reuters investigation revealed that since at least the 1970s, the FDA has downplayed health concerns about talc in powders and cosmetics, deferring again and again to manufacturers. The story follows earlier reporting on how Johnson & Johnson failed to warn customers that its talc powders and cosmetics were tainted with cancer-causing asbestos […]
Reuters TV app, website to be folded into regular app and site
Simon Hutson, managing director of consumer at Reuters, sent out the following: We’ve learnt a lot since we first launched Reuters TV as a direct-to-consumer app in 2015. Our thinking about mobile video news has evolved. We’ve experimented, iterated and received a great deal of feedback. Video content has become even more important to consumers. […]
