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Reuters sets new editorial appraisal objectives

Tuesday 20 October 2009

Reuters has set new editorial appraisal objectives for its journalists. Senior editors and editorial managers said they felt it was time to break from the broadly unchanged editorial objectives of the past few years.

"What do we expect? That Reuters journalists will own the big stories, focus on higher value content, be first and handle news quickly, better serve customer needs, work as a team and be innovative," global managing editor Betty Wong, pictured, said in a note to staff.

"Rather than be prescriptive in what these mean for journalists, the NLT [News Leadership Team] asks managers to keep the overarching themes in mind as well as editorial targets when building individual development objectives."

The broad objectives for journalists' and editorial managers' twice-yearly appraisals are:

  1. Own the big stories, emphasise higher-value content
  2. Be first, handle news quickly
  3. Understand customer needs
  4. Teamwork
  5. Innovate
  6. Lead, communicate, be a face for Reuters/Thomson Reuters
  7. Stay within budget targets.

The news leadership team is a steering group of senior editorial management. It sets editorial's operational agenda. The team's members are:

  • Kelly Anderson, global head of communications
  • Sarah Cavanagh, head of human resources
  • John Clarke, global editor, TV/assistant US publisher, visuals
  • Jackie Combine, global head of finance, editorial and content
  • Chris Cramer, global editor of multimedia
  • Stella Dawson, editor, treasury news
  • Adrian Dickson, managing editor, Asia
  • Thomas Kim, senior vice president and deputy general counsel, markets division
  • Michael Lawrence, global head, news specialists
  • Richard Mably, commodities & energy editor
  • Sean Maguire, global editor, political & general news
  • Andrew Meagher, global head real time financial publishing
  • Jack Reerink, global editor, company news
  • Gary Regenstreif, global editor, domestic news services
  • Brian Rhoads, managing editor, Americas
  • David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief
  • Alex Spinelli, head of news technology
  • Thomas Szlukovenyi, global editor, pictures
  • Mark Thomson, managing editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa
  • Betty Wong, global managing editor
  • Dean Wright, global editor, ethics, innovation and news values.
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Reuters