Reuters Leadership Team
Executive Committee
Paul Bascobert joined Thomson Reuters as President of Reuters News in September 2022. In this role, he leads all aspects of the company’s media business and operations.
Bascobert has been an operating executive, adviser and entrepreneur for more than 25 years and has deep experience in transformation and growth in news, media and SaaS businesses.
He was previously co-founder and CEO of Blue Ocean Acquisition Corp – a special purpose acquisition company focused on media, marketplace and tech platform businesses; CEO of Gannett Co., Inc – one of the largest local media companies, which owns more than 700 daily and weekly publications in the U.S. and UK; President of American media and technology company XO Group; and President of Yodle Inc during the launch of the SaaS marketing platform.
Prior to this, Bascobert was President of Bloomberg Businessweek and Head of Business Operations for the newly created Bloomberg Media Group, as well as Senior Vice President of Operations and then Chief Marketing Officer at Dow Jones.
Paul has a degree in electrical engineering from Kettering University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Alessandra Galloni became editor-in-chief of Reuters in April 2021. She oversees all editorial functions across video, text, pictures, and graphics. She is the first female editor-in-chief in the organization’s 170-year history.
Previously, Galloni was global managing editor, overseeing news planning and creation, where she was responsible for overseeing Reuters coverage and developing stories with a cross-regional focus. She first joined Reuters in 1996 for the Italian-language news service in Rome, later moving to the equities reporting team in London. She re-joined Reuters in September 2013 as editor of the Southern Europe bureau following 13 years at The Wall Street Journal, where she worked as a reporter, economics and business writer and editor, in London, Paris and Rome.
Galloni is the recipient of the 2020 Lawrence Minard Editor Award from the Gerald Loeb Foundation and the UCLA Anderson School of Management, one of the highest honors a business journalist can receive. She is also the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award and a UK Business Journalist of the Year Award.
An Italian national, Galloni is a graduate of Harvard University and has a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics.
Alphonse Hardel is the Head of Agency at Reuters, leading the content licensing and solutions business that serves customers in media, sports, government, and corporations. His team comprises the sales, marketing, proposition, partnerships and strategy functions for the leading international news agency.
Previously he was VP, Business Development and Strategy, heading a team that defined the strategic priorities for Reuters and pursued their implementation through strategic partnerships, organic initiatives and inorganic acquisitions. During his tenure Reuters acquired four businesses that have reshaped Reuters’ position in the markets it operates. His responsibilities also included overseeing the Program Delivery and Data & Analytics teams.
Prior to it, Alphonse held roles in sales, product and partnerships in which he delivered a range of key projects, including implementing the partnership strategy for Reuters Connect, securing innovative channel partnerships, conceiving and launching a range of news agency products, and negotiating complex agreements with key customers and partners.
Alphonse has been with Reuters since 2005, he holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Ecole Centrale Lyon and a Master in European Business from ESCP Business School.
Matthew Keen has been Head of Operations & Strategy at Reuters since May 2024 responsible for strategy, business development, data & analytics, program management, commercial excellence, and customer operations. In addition, Matthew has been Head of Finance, Financial Systems & Data for Thomson Reuters since October 2022. Prior to this Matthew held various positions at Reuters and Thomson Reuters including Head of International, Thomson Reuters from April 2023 to April 2024, Interim President, Reuters, from January to September 2022 and Chief Financial Officer, Reuters from February 2018 to December 2021, which was combined with leading Thomson Reuters finance transformation during 2021. Matthew was Chief Financial Officer, for the Legal, Corporates and Tax businesses in Europe from August 2013 to February 2018 and Head of Finance, Enterprise (Financial & Risk division) from October 2010 to August 2013.
Matthew re-joined Thomson Reuters in late 2010 after holding senior finance positions at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 2009 and 2010 having first joined Reuters in 2002 and leaving at the end of 2008. Prior to joining Reuters, Matthew became an ICAEW Chartered Accountant working at Deloitte. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Warwick.
In her capacity as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, Katharine leads three practice groups in the Thomson Reuters General Counsel’s Office: Reuters Editorial, Employment & Labor, and Commercial Disputes. She also serves as general counsel for the Reuters business.
Katharine provides strategic vision and advice on advisory and contentious legal matters around the globe. She offers deep expertise in crisis management. In 2021, Katharine supported the evacuation from Kabul of over 120 journalists and their families, and, in 2019, she led the criminal defense that ultimately secured the release of two Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters journalists falsely convicted of espionage in Myanmar.
Katharine joined Thomson Reuters in 2014 from Levine Sullivan, a media and intellectual property firm, where she advocated for news organizations and other content creators. She previously served as a legal adviser for the ABA’s Rule of Law programs in Azerbaijan; a Fulbright Fellow in Croatia conducting fieldwork in behavioral economics; a humanitarian aid worker in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo; and an associate at Clifford Chance. She is an Iowa native who is based in our New York offices.
Drew is the CFO of Reuters News, a role he has held since 2022. He leads all financial planning and analysis, investment allocation, and finance operations for Reuters News and its divisions globally. Previously, he served as deputy CFO of Reuters News for 2 years.
Drew has been with Thomson Reuters since 2011, holding a variety of finance roles at the parent company and in the Tax Professionals and Corporates Professionals business segments. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Drew worked in investment banking at Citibank and in private equity for American Securities, a large middle market buyout firm in New York City.
Drew holds a B.A. in Economics and Chinese Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Josh London leads all of Reuters direct-to-consumer and direct-to-professional business lines globally, across digital, conferences, specialist and branded content studio, including Reuters.com, Reuters Events, The Insurer, Breakingviews and Reuters Plus.
London is an entrepreneurial executive with a proven history of creating and leading digital businesses and managing the digital transformation of established companies in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets. He joined Reuters as Chief Marketing Officer. He previously served as CMO of IDG Communications, a technology media, data and marketing services firm with operations in 147 countries, was founder and managing partner of Salt Island Ventures, a marketing and management consultancy, and Chief Operating Officer of SX2 Media Labs. Earlier, London held roles at leading media and technology companies including CNET, ZDNet, Ziff Davis, Thomas Publishing Company and PSINet.
Josh holds a B.A. in English from Boston University. He is a Member of the Board of Advisors for the Glen Nelson Center at American Public Media Group and served as a Senior Deputy of Media, Entertainment and Sport for the World Economic Forum and as an Entrepreneur Board Member for Venture for America.
Jonathan Mullen, Vice President, Communications, Reuters, has been in the role since November 2023. He has held senior communications roles at BNP Paribas, HSBC and BlackRock and has a wealth of experience in strategic communications, issues management and talent management. More recently he has advised GAM Investments and Trinity College, Cambridge, on communications issues. He started his career as an employment lawyer at a large firm in the City of London, before changing fields to communications at a French bank.
As the CTO/Head of Technology at Reuters, Mahesh is responsible for leading the Technology team and shaping the organization’s technology strategy. His areas of expertise span technology development, AI integration, architecture design, platform management, cybersecurity, quality assurance, and operational resilience.
During his tenure at Reuters, Mahesh spearheaded the transformation of Editorial technology, seamlessly integrating AI and cloud-based solutions into workflow tools and applications. His innovative contributions have been instrumental in enhancing efficiency, fostering business growth, and driving forward-thinking innovation within the organization.
Mahesh’s leadership also extends to the modernization of the News platform, a pivotal system powering LSEG businesses, including LSEG Workspace. His strategic vision and technical prowess have played a pivotal role in optimizing operational workflows and ensuring technological agility.
Before joining Reuters in 2007 as the Head of Architecture, News Technology, Mahesh accrued a decade of experience at the ANZ Banking group, where he held key roles in the Investment Banking and Corporate Finance divisions, notably as an Engineering Lead and Solution Architect. Mahesh holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal in India.
Simon Robinson was appointed Executive Editor of Reuters in October 2022. Previously, he served as Global Managing Editor, Newsroom.
He joined the news service in 2010 and ran investigations and enterprise reporting in Europe, Middle East and Africa for six years, editing award-winning series on Iran, Russia, corporate taxation, Greek banks and migration.
Between 2017 and 2019 he was Regional Editor for EMEA, running our single biggest region and overseeing everything from breaking news to budgets.
Between 1995 and 2010, Simon was a correspondent and then editor for Time magazine, reporting from more than 50 countries in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He has published short stories and wrote and produced an award-winning satirical movie about aid workers and journalists in Africa.
Luke joined Thomson Reuters in 2007 as an HR Business Partner for the UK Legal business and has since advanced through various roles and regions. As the current Vice President of HR, Reuters, he manages HR operations across 76 countries and 200 locations, focusing on strategic workforce planning and employee well-being. His recent work includes overseeing HR for two strategic acquisitions and implementing a new operating model to boost efficiency and agility.
Previously, as the Regional Head of HR for EMEA, Luke led HR initiatives that significantly enhanced growth and engagement and spearheaded DE&I efforts in the UK. Before that, he served as Head of HR for Legal UKI & Europe, where he supported revenue growth, led a transformative change program, and managed key acquisitions and a strategic divestiture.
Earlier in his career, Luke was a Regional HR Business Partner in Asia, leading GTM strategies across financial and risk sectors, and started as the International HR Manager for the Business of Law segment. He holds a CIPD qualification from Kingston University and a BA in Business Studies & Human Resources from Sussex University.
Editorial Leadership Team
Alessandra Galloni became editor-in-chief of Reuters in April 2021. She oversees all editorial functions across video, text, pictures, and graphics. She is the first female editor-in-chief in the organization’s 170-year history.
Previously, Galloni was global managing editor, overseeing news planning and creation, where she was responsible for overseeing Reuters coverage and developing stories with a cross-regional focus. She first joined Reuters in 1996 for the Italian-language news service in Rome, later moving to the equities reporting team in London. She re-joined Reuters in September 2013 as editor of the Southern Europe bureau following 13 years at The Wall Street Journal, where she worked as a reporter, economics and business writer and editor, in London, Paris and Rome.
Galloni is the recipient of the 2020 Lawrence Minard Editor Award from the Gerald Loeb Foundation and the UCLA Anderson School of Management, one of the highest honors a business journalist can receive. She is also the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award and a UK Business Journalist of the Year Award.
An Italian national, Galloni is a graduate of Harvard University and has a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics.
Simon Robinson was appointed Executive Editor of Reuters in October 2022. Previously, he served as Global Managing Editor, Newsroom.
He joined the news service in 2010 and ran investigations and enterprise reporting in Europe, Middle East and Africa for six years, editing award-winning series on Iran, Russia, corporate taxation, Greek banks and migration.
Between 2017 and 2019 he was Regional Editor for EMEA, running our single biggest region and overseeing everything from breaking news to budgets.
Between 1995 and 2010, Simon was a correspondent and then editor for Time magazine, reporting from more than 50 countries in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He has published short stories and wrote and produced an award-winning satirical movie about aid workers and journalists in Africa.
Jane Barrett is the Global Editor, Media News Strategy for Reuters. As part of the Editorial leadership team, she has responsibility for new business across the 171-year-old news agency, from growing output and revenue in audio and fact-checking to modernising journalistic formats and content.
Previously, she led the multimedia transformation of the global newsroom to increase Reuters digital output. Before that, she was the business editor for EMEA, started up a financial video service and was a reporter in Italy and Spain. Outside Reuters she is a trustee of Podium.me, a charity that gets young people into journalism and storytelling through podcasts, and is a board member of the World Editors’ Forum. She has a lifelong passion for classical music and being outside.
Mark Bendeich manages Reuters’ newsgathering operations for political, economic and world news coverage. Based in London, he works with regional news editors and bureau chiefs across seven regions to set priorities for news coverage. Mark has worked in six countries since starting his career with Reuters in Hong Kong. Until taking on his current role, he was Europe News Editor. Previously, he was Southern Europe bureau chief based in Milan. His other roles have included Asia Top News Editor, Australia and Pacific bureau chief, Malaysia bureau chief and head of UK companies coverage. Mark has also worked as a desk editor in Singapore. Before joining Reuters, he worked across his native Australia in newspapers and radio. He was Reuters Editor of the Year for 2011.
Alix Freedman is the Global Head, Ethics and Standards for Reuters. Alix works closely with reporters and editors on major stories, final-reading many high signature pieces, and holding the company to the high standards set out in the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. She also handles post-publication issues.
Prior to joining Reuters in 2011, Alix was Deputy Managing Editor and Page One Editor at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, she oversaw ethics and standards of high-impact stories in the paper and on the Dow Jones newswires.
Alix was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for her investigative reporting on the tobacco industry, and has been honoured with numerous other accolades, including the George Polk Award and two Gerald Loeb Awards. She is a graduate of Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in history and literature.
Jonathan Leff is Global Editor, Financial News Strategy at Reuters, responsible for maintaining and deepening the strategic partnership between the Editorial organization and Refinitiv, the financial services firm that is Reuters’ largest customer. He is also responsible for overseeing the strategic newsrooms in Bangalore, India, and Gdansk, Poland, which now produce thousands of alerts and stories a month in a dozen languages. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Jonathan joined Reuters as a local correspondent in Lithuania in 1998; he moved to London two years later, the start of a 15-year career as an oil and commodity markets specialist. After running regional reporting teams from Singapore and New York, he went on to become Reuters global editor for commodities, overseeing coverage by a staff of more than 150 reporters, columnists and editors worldwide. He also raises chickens.
Nick Tattersall is Global Managing Editor, Newsroom, at Reuters. He oversees the news agency’s global staff, training and development as well as the safety and security of its journalists around the world.
He previously served as Head of the Global News Desk, running Reuters global text editing operations, and as Managing Editor, News, for EMEA, overseeing the news file in the agency’s single biggest region.
Nick joined Reuters in 2000 and has run news bureaus and reported from around Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nick is a graduate of Oxford University and has a Master’s degree from Columbia University in New York, where he was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism.
Peter Thal Larsen is the Global Editor of Reuters Breakingviews, the award-winning provider of financial insight. Based in London, he leads a 30-strong team of editors and columnists covering corporate finance, banking, economics, markets, and policy around the globe.
Peter has held a series of positions at Breakingviews, including EMEA Editor and Global Economics Editor. Between 2012 and 2016, Peter was Asia Editor based in Hong Kong, spearheading Breakingviews’ expansion in the region.
Peter joined Reuters in June 2009 from the Financial Times, where he worked for 10 years. Between 2005 and 2009 he was the FT’s banking editor, leading the paper’s award-winning coverage of global banking during the credit crunch. Between 2000 and 2004 Peter was based in New York, where he covered Wall Street and the media business, and played a leading role in the FT’s coverage of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath.
Peter was the winner of the “Best in Business” prize for international commentary for 2013, awarded by the Society of American Business Writers and Editors.
A Dutch national, Peter has degrees from Bristol University and the London School of Economics.
Julien Toyer is the Global Editor for Operations. He oversees our budget and manages strategy and operations for our 2,600-strong newsroom.
Julien joined Reuters in 2006 in Paris as an online correspondent for the French service before moving to Brussels where, between 2008 and 2012, he covered the euro zone debt crisis, financial regulation, and foreign policy. Since 2012, he is based in Spain where he has successively been Senior Business Correspondent, Spain and Iberia Bureau Chief and Europe General Manager. Julien holds degrees in politics, international relations and journalism and completed an executive management programme at IESE business school in Barcelona.
He started his career as a press attaché for the French embassy in Mexico and has reported in more than two dozen countries for Reuters. In the last years, he has led several transformation programmes in our newsroom, including the creation of breaking news hubs across all our editorial regions, and he’s now one of a group of editors overseeing our AI newsroom strategy.
Jo Webster is the Global Managing Editor for Visuals at Reuters. She creates and executes strategy for Reuters award-winning video and pictures teams, driving distinctive visual journalism for media customers and consumers. Prior to this role she was Managing Editor for Strategy and Operations in EMEA. Jo joined Reuters in 2009 as a senior producer for Insider Financial TV. In 2015, she launched Reuters TV – a flagship consumer TV offering designed to showcase Reuters award-winning journalism and geographical reach on cutting-edge digital platforms.
Jo started her career in the trade press and had a front row seat to the 2007 financial crisis as a producer and on-screen reporter for CNBC Television. Outside of Reuters, Jo is a trustee and deputy chair for the National Council for the Training of Journalists in the UK.
Mike Williams is the Global Enterprise Editor at Reuters, a position he assumed in 2011. He developed the news agency’s global enterprise and investigative operation, a team of 16 editors and reporters in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In addition to generating its own work, the team is responsible for driving investigative and explanatory journalism in the agency’s news bureaus across the world, and for training Reuters reporters in enterprise reporting and writing techniques.
Before joining Reuters, Mike was with The Wall Street Journal for nearly 20 years, most recently as Deputy Managing Editor and Page-One Editor of the Wall Street Journal. In this role, he was one of three deputies to the editor-in-chief who managed the WSJ on a daily basis, where he was responsible for enterprise coverage and investigative projects for print and online, and for selecting and editing all daily news and features that ran on the front page of the Journal.
Mike joined The Wall Street Journal as a Japan Correspondent, based in Tokyo. He went on to hold the positions of Assistant Foreign Editor, Japan Bureau Chief, Southern Europe Bureau Chief & Global Energy Editor and Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe while at the Journal.
Previously, Mike held positions at Business Tokyo Magazine, Asahi Shimbun and Japan Times. He is the winner of an Overseas Press Club Award, for a five-part series on the Japanese bureaucracy.
Tiffany Wu is in charge of global business news at Reuters and leads the reporting teams that cover corporate, financial, commodities and energy news around the world.
She was previously the global managing editor for publishing and curation, with oversight of the global editing desk, graphics team and Reuters.com. Tiffany joined Reuters in 1998 as a reporter in Hong Kong covering the economy and debt market. She worked in Shanghai and Taiwan, where she was bureau chief, before moving to New York in 2006 to lead the U.S. technology, media and telecoms reporting team. She then headed the Americas companies team, ran the Americas editing desk, and was the Americas regional editor, overseeing journalists across the United States, Canada and Latin America. Tiffany is based in New York City.