Stephen Adler
 Stephen Adler  (journalist, editor) | |
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| Born | 1955 |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Harvard College, Harvard Law School |
| Member of | Council on Foreign Relations/Members |
Stephen J. Adler is an American journalist. He has been editor-in-chief of Reuters, the news agency that is the source of the majority of corporate news, since 2011.
Early life
Stephen Adler was born in 1955. His father, Norman, was a high school English department chairman, and his mother, Mildred, was a writer and social worker. He graduated from Harvard University in 1977 and from Harvard Law School in 1983.[1]
Career
He began his career as a reporter for Tampa Times and Tallahassee Democrat. He joined The American Lawyer in 1983, then in 1988 joined The Wall Street Journal as legal editor. He was promoted to assistant managing editor in 1998 and to deputy managing editor in 2000.
He was editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek from 2005 to 2009. During his five-year tenure, the magazine and its website won more than 100 awards.
He joined Thomson Reuters in 2010 as senior vice president and editorial director of the company’s Professional Division.[2] He was named editor-in-chief of Reuters News and an executive vice president for Thomson Reuters in 2011, where he directed the editorial operations and news strategy for the company. Adler was named president and editor-in-chief of Reuters in December 2012.[3] In 2018, he spoke out against the arrest and conviction of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar.[4]
Adler is chairman of the board of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and is chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review. In addition, he serves on the boards of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Committee to Protect Journalists (This protection doesn't seem to extend to non-corporate Western media, who are deplatformed, demonetized, threatened and demonized on a daily basis).
He is a member of the International Media Council of the World Economic Forum and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| WEF/Annual Meeting/2017 | 17 January 2017 | 20 January 2017 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
References
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/style/lisa-grunwald-an-editor-is-wed-to-stephen-j-adler.html
- ↑ https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/answerson/authors/stephen-j-adler/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120525010655/http://thomsonreuters.com/about/exec_team/Stephen_Adler/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/world/asia/reuters-journalists-myanmar-trial.html
