Prominent blogger Salmon leaving Reuters

Felix Salmon, a well-known and prolific financial blogger for Reuters, is leaving the news organization, reports Ravi Somaiya of the New York Times.

Somaiya writes, “Mr. Salmon declined to release details of his new job when reached by phone on Monday, but in an email sent to colleagues he explained he was ‘off to do exciting things on the Internet.’ A familiar web presence to those engaged with his areas of interest, Mr. Salmon, 42, had been at Reuters for five years.

“He began his career with the first wave of web journalists, in 1999, and came to Reuters in 2009 from Condé Nast’s short-lived financial publication Portfolio, according to a biography he posted on his Reuters blog when he joined.

“Mr. Salmon was seen as a key player in Reuters’s strategy, known as Reuters Next, to build a consumer-directed news operation to go with its news wires and financial terminals. That plan was scuttled last year after the company’s chief executive said it had missed deadlines and exceeded budgets.”

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