Anatole Kaletsky to join Reuters as a columnist

“We’re thrilled to welcome Anatole to our international team of columnists and to be able to share his incredible economic insight with our customers around the world,” Adler said. “His work will appear not only on our financial and professional platforms, but also on Reuters.com and in the International Herald Tribune as part of their ‘Business with Reuters’ arrangement.”

Kaletsky, whose last column appears in The Times today, has been the newspaper’s editor at large, writing a weekly column on economics and government, since joining as economics editor in 1990. He is the latest in a line of high-profile writers and editors who have joined Reuters in the last two years, including Sir Harold Evans, former Times and Sunday Times editor, as editor at large.

“I am delighted to be joining Reuters because I believe that news and analysis for business readers and policymakers is shifting irrevocably from print to digital,” Kaletsky said. “I think Reuters, with its unrivalled journalistic resources, its worldwide network of professional readers and its understanding of technology, has an excellent chance of creating the world’s leading online news company. After 35 years of working in print media, it will be exciting to work for a company that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of its readers and is determined to ensure the survival of quality journalism in the internet age.”

From 1976 to 1998 Kaletsky was a full-time journalist on The Times, The Economist and the Financial Times. His journalism awards include Newspaper Commentator of the Year, Economic Journalist of the Year, European Journalist of the Year and Specialist Writer of the Year. He will be 60 on 1 June. ■