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Reuters EIC Adler is bullish

Reuters editor in chief Stephen Adlerheld a conference call with employees on Wednesday in which he expressed confidence about the future of the business news organization.

The Baron, a site that follows Reuters news, writes, ““We are really an astounding organisation… I really do think we are getting better all the time,’ Adler, pictured, said in the hour-long call on Wednesday.

“Reuters was brilliant on news but was now adding commentary which “is incredibly important for many of our customers,’ Adler said.

“The organisation was getting more positive attention to its work. ‘Some of that we’ve been positively working to do. We’ve hired wonderful bookers who are getting us on important shows. And that clearly shows in the numbers. The broadcast appearances by Reuter journalists are up by 70 per cent. So, way more. And we’re getting great peer recognition. That is one measure of whether people believe we’re doing outstanding work. And the number of awards we’re getting globally is up quite a bit – double digits. Last time I looked it was 15 per cent year-on-year. So the external recognition seems to be there and improving.’

“Listing coverage that had impressed him, Adler mentioned Syria – ‘an incredibly dangerous place to be working in, as we all know,’ – the Eurozone crisis, the London Olympics and other news stories.

“He made no reference to an article in The Independent a month ago that said Reuters was facing an unprecedented identity crisis, with the relative value of breaking news diminishing, its financial customers retrenching and a string of operational missteps since the company was taken over five years ago by the Thomson group.”

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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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  • Day by day Stephen Adler spreading lies about Reuters.
    In fact Reuters utter lack of ethics and intellectual as well..BIAS and ZERO INTEGRITY
    The white collar gangsters runs Reuters news for their political and pocket interest.
    Unfortunately Stephen Adler has no SHAME CULTURE.

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