Three more leave Reuters in the United States

Reuters is losing its global head of product and two US West Coast journalists to other organisations.

Jason Fox is moving to Consumer Reports, an independent, non-profit organisation, as vice president of digital. At Reuters, he led a complete rethink of Reuters’ flagship business-to-business product, Media Express, and also launched several other digital products.

In editorial, West Coast bureau chief Dina Contini announced the departure of West Coast technology editor Edwin Chan (photo) and reporter Alexei Oreskovic.

Chan is joining Bloomberg as Asia technology editor in Hong Kong.

Oreskovic will join Business Insider as a senior editor in San Francisco.

Chan joined Reuters in 1997 as an editorial assistant in Singapore. “He went from getting coffee for Asia-deskers and fixing office equipment to being accepted to the graduate trainee program and eventually running bureaus in Shanghai and Hong Kong during China’s first overseas-IPO wave,” Contini wrote in a message to staff.

“He then moved to Los Angeles and San Francisco as West Coast Equities EIC. Most recently, he covered Alibaba and other Chinese Internet companies from Silicon Valley. Edwin says the highlights of his 17-year career include sending the snap on China’s first currency revaluation in over a decade that beat Bloomberg by over a minute, and getting detained (and then plied with food and liquor) by security officials for daring to try and cover an outbreak of AIDS in central Henan province.”

Oreskovic joined Reuters in 2009 to cover the consumer Internet business, including Google and up-and-coming companies such as Facebook and Twitter. ■