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Reuters hires Pulitzer winner and deputy social media editor

Monday 9 January 2012

Steve Stecklow, pictured, a former Reuters stringer in Philadelphia who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, is joining Reuters in London as a member of the expanding investigations team. Matthew Keys, another award-winner, has been hired as deputy social media editor.

Stecklow shared a 2007 Pulitzer with three Journal colleagues for a series on backdated stock options. In 2003 he and Alix Freedman, now Reuters’ global editor for ethics and standards, were Pulitzer finalists for their series on corruption in the United Nations’ oil-for-food programme. He has also won or shared the George Polk journalism award three times, including in 1996 for exposing a Ponzi scheme in a story edited by Stephen Adler, now Reuters’ editor-in-chief.

Keys, who will be based in New York and report to social media editor Anthony De Rosa, will produce online content for Reuters.com, expand Reuters’ presence on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr and new platforms, and play a key role in helping to train Reuters journalists on best practices in social media.

He was recently nominated for an Online News Association award in the category of “Breaking News excellence” for his coverage of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan. Before joining Reuters he was an online content producer and manager for KTXL FOX40, a Tribune Broadcasting television station in Sacramento, and an online news producer for KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco. ■

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