Parsons, ex-Reuters, joining Newsweek

Claudia Parsons, previously a top news editor and deputy enterprise editor at Reuters, is joining Newsweek later this month.

Parsons will be reunited with Jim Impoco, the top editor at Newsweek, who had also worked at Reuters.

She starts Feb. 24. “I’ll be doing a bit of everything, but with a focus on arts/culture/life and other features,” said Persons in an email to Talking Biz News.  “It’s a small team so we are all generalists.”

When asked about Impoco, Parsons said, “I was lucky enough to be Jim’s deputy at Reuters for a while and it was so much fun I had to find a way to work for him again. Lucky for me he runs a magazine now.”

Parsons left Reuters in October 2013. She joined Reuters as a graduate trainee in London in 1997 and worked in Spain, Italy, Turkey, Iraq and the United States during her 16 years with Reuters.

Her reporting covered subjects ranging from the Monaco Grand Prix to the war in Afghanistan, the Oscars to the U.S. presidential elections.

As deputy enterprise editor in 2011, she helped launch investigative reporting at Reuters with Impoco. Among her editing credits are a story on shell companies that won several awards including a Loeb, and a major multimedia package on frontier markets that won a SABEW award.

Born in Scotland and with a BA Hons. 1st class in Classics and Modern Languages from Oxford University, Parsons lives with her husband Rick Perry, a photographer at the New York Times.