Another new era is beckoning

Amazingly, with every management change and abrupt staff dismissals there comes a new era. First, there was chief executive officer Tom Glocer, who only a few months ago painted a bright future and said he had no plans to leave. Well, he is out the door at year-end, replaced by James Smith, who even before taking the helm says Thomson-Reuters integration has been completed and “the company now enters a new era”. Editor-in-chief Stephen Adler says he has the full support of Smith and that he is “optimistic, energized, and eager to embrace the opportunities ahead”. Well, let’s hope so because recent blunders by Adler’s prize-winning staff additions are not a good beginning to a new era. ■