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Reuters columnist who resigned due to ethical concerns now writing for FT

Roy Greenslade of The Guardian in London reports that Neil Collins, who resigned in controversial circumstances from Thomson Reuters in October last year, has returned to the business press by writing for the Financial Times.

Greenslade reports, “He started a weekly column on the FT Alphaville site, called Something for the weekend, earlier this month.

“Collins quit the Reuters Breaking Views website after he was said to have failed to declare that he owned shares in a number of companies he was writing about, including BP, Marks & Spencer, Yell and Diageo.

“But there was no evidence Collins was ‘abusing his position for financial gain,’ as a Reuters report stated.

“In an email sent by Collins to Hugo Dixon, the co-founder and global editor of BreakingViews, (reproduced in full on this site) Collins said he was ‘saddened and embarrassed by my breaches of the [Reuters] rules.’

“At the time, there was considerable sympathy for Collins’s plight within the financial journalistic community. He was thought to have been foolish.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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  • This story is so funny
    I think, money laundering by crook senior executives such as Thomas Henry Glocer has been regarded as the "ETHICAL" values for Reuters .
    Further more forgery,false and fake financial report filing at SEC,FSA and SEDAR has been regarded s great achievement.

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