Departures

Outstanding journalists - Jim Vicini, Donna Smith, Glenn Somerville, Bernd Debusmann - leave Reuters Washington. They were prominent amongst the journalists who made Reuters in the United States a news force, building it from the 80s onwards. In Pakistan, half a dozen journalists quit in protest against standards. Standards deficient at Reuters? What on earth is going on? What does the editor-in-chief have to say? ■