Veteran editor swaps Reuters for maths teaching

McBride, who joined Reuters in 1994, has been International Investigations Editor since 2016. She was part of the editing teams that helped win Pulitzer Prizes in 2019 and 2018 for reports on Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis and the brutal war against drug traffickers by former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.

She previously held roles in London as MEA Top News Editor, Political and General News Editor and Energy Editor.

Her boss, Global Enterprise Editor Michael Williams, said in a fulsome tribute that McBride, “one of the most distinguished editors to have graced the Reuters file, will be leaving us with the aim of taking up a noble new career: mathematics teacher in the UK school system”.

Earlier this year she took a sabbatical to help obtain a degree in mathematics and decided she wanted to swap to a career as a schoolteacher Williams said, quoting her as saying: “Lord knows, all of Britain’s services need all the help they can get.” ■