Reuters names Amsterdam bureau chief, hires Brussels reporter

Luke Baker, bureau chief in Brussels for Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Friday:

All, I’m very happy to announce two new appointments to strengthen our coverage of the European Union and the Netherlands:

Starting in the north, Anthony Deutsch has been appointed bureau chief in Amsterdam and will be responsible for strengthening coverage of the Netherlands to ensure we remain a leader on the corporate, economic and political file out of a top 20 economy. Anthony has been a specialist correspondent in Amsterdam for the past two years, delivering several hard-hitting special reports on Syria’s chemical weapons and the efforts by The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to remove them safely.

Before joining Reuters, Anthony spent seven years in Asia, working for the Financial Times in Indonesia and East Timor and before that running the Associated Press bureau in Jakarta, as well as covering conflicts in Sri Lanka, Iraq and the Balkans. A fluent Dutch speaker, Anthony started his career as a business reporter for Dow Jones in the Netherlands, covering technology companies during the dotcom boom and later the introduction of  the euro. He’s already in Amsterdam, so Anthony is already in the job and firing on all cylinders.

In Brussels, Julia Fioretti joins the 14-strong bureau to cover EU affairs, with a focus on digital, technology, telecoms and transport issues, as well as being the point person for coverage of the European Parliament. Julia has just completed the Reuters graduate training programme, where she performed very successfully on the stocks, commodities, entertainment, emerging markets and EU news desks. A fluent Italian and French speaker, Julia will be put to work right away helping cover the European elections next week, and the negotiations that follow over the appointment of the next European Commission president and the formation of his or her Commission. With the leading candidate for the job having promised an overhaul of the EU’s telecoms sector, she should be in for a busy time. Julia starts in Brussels on May 19^th.

Please join me in wishing them every success in their roles.