Reuters boosts online effort, names new editors

Digital executive editor Jim Roberts said in an internal notice that Margarita Noriega, who joined the organisation earlier this year and is currently community editor, will step up to the new position of editor in charge, Reuters Live News. She will oversee and manage the production and editing of live blogs across Reuters.com and mobile sites and apps. She will help develop and refine guidelines for live blogs and be the main liaison to the newsroom in organising live-blog responses to breaking news events. “In addition, she will be the newsroom’s social media point person, overseeing Reuters accounts on Twitter, Facebook and other social platforms. She will also help the newsroom innovate new ways of using social media to spread Reuters journalism, interact with our audience and collect news, images and video for our digital platforms.”

Arlene Getz, who recently served as editorial liaison for Thomson Reuters’ media clients in the United States, fills the new position of editor in charge, Digital News. She will work with editors on the Top News desk, as well as digital editors managing consumer news platforms, to ensure that the audience on Reuters.com and mobile apps is delivered the most up to date and relevant news from reporters and desks throughout the news organisation. “She will work to ensure that it is produced and edited in a way that best serves the consumer audience. And she will be a liaison with editors in Bangalore and other offices as we continue to build a global editing team for the legacy Reuters.com, the new website and our mobile apps,” Roberts said.

Robert MacMillan will devote more of his time to editing and developing new content for Reuters.com and the company’s other digital platforms. He will keep all of his present responsibilities supervising the online desks in Bangalore, which produces Reuters.com and in New Delhi, which produces the Reuters India website, as well as being the primary editor for much of the blog content and other digital-only efforts that appear in Reuters news sections. ■