Effron names new company news editor at Reuters

Dayan Candappa, editor of the Americas for Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

Eric Effron is the new Company News Editor for the Americas and his mission is to get everyone in this region thinking about ways to tell corporate stories. Eric, who moves into his role on August 1st, knows he faces demands for deeper, broader and smarter company news from virtually every audience Reuters serves. Better corporate coverage is the biggest and most urgent news need of each of the major customer groups of the Financial and Risk business. Well reported, original corporate stories are a critical component of our offering on the consumer, media and legal platforms.

This is a great opportunity for Eric and his team to transform the way they approach company news. The rest of us must seize the moment to add a new dimension to our reporting. Companies, like humans, are actors in every drama we cover from sports and entertainment to conflicts, politics and economic policy. This region is exploding with great stories that affect the corporate world and we all have an opportunity to tell them.

You’ll hear more on this from Eric, who has real expertise in driving specialist coverage for niche audiences while using the access and expertise of those teams to tell stories that have broader appeal. Eric joined Thomson Reuters nearly four years ago to launch the company’s first legal news stream, building a team of journalists to serve legal clients (a new customer set for Reuters) along with financial and media clients. As a result of an unprecedented collaboration between Reuters and Thomson Reuters’ Legal business, the flagship WestlawNext platform now prominently features Reuters news on its landing page, and last year, the Legal business launched a new product, Practitioner Insights, that’s built around exclusive news produced by the Reuters team.

Before joining Reuters, Eric served as Managing Editor and then Executive Editor of The Week magazine, overseeing business, political and cultural coverage for the acclaimed newsweekly. Before that, he was Editor of Brill’s Content, a ground-breaking magazine about the media business. Earlier in his career, Eric served as Editor and Publisher of Legal Times, an award-winning publication that covered law and lobbying in Washington, D.C. He also served as Washington Editor and Publisher of Counsel Connect, an ahead-of-its time online information and networking site for lawyers, and was a Contributing Editor at Court TV.

Eric started his career as a reporter for his hometown newspaper, The New Haven Register in New Haven, Connecticut. He received a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Please join me in wishing Eric all the best with his new assignment.