Anthony De Rosa
Reuters hires Pulitzer winner and deputy social media editor
Monday 09 January 2012
Secklow shared a 2007 Pulitzer with three Journal colleagues for a series on backdated stock options. In 2003 he and Alix Freedman, now Reuters’ global editor for ethics and standards, were Pulitzer finalists for their series on corruption in the United Nations’ oil-for-food programme. He has also won or shared the George Polk journalism award three times, including in 1996 for exposing a Ponzi scheme in a story edited by Stephen Adler, now Reuters’ editor-in-chief.
Keys, who will be based in New York and report to social media editor Anthony De Rosa, will produce online content for ● Reuters.com, expand Reuters’ presence on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr and new platforms, and play a key role in helping to train Reuters journalists on best practices in social media.
He was recently nominated for an Online News Association award in the category of “Breaking News excellence” for his coverage of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan. Before joining Reuters he was an online content producer and manager for KTXL FOX40, a Tribune Broadcasting television station in Sacramento, and an online news producer for KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco.
● SOURCE Talking Biz News
Reuters extends move into social media
Thursday 07 July 2011
Reuters has appointed a new social media editor with the aim of extending the brand, bringing more people to the ● Reuters.com website, and making Reuters the most recognisable name in news.
Jim Impoco, executive editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, said the new editor, Anthony De Rosa, was “a product manager and technologist” who had turned a side project into one of the most potent social media platforms around.
“Called ‘The undisputed King of Tumblr’ by the New York Times, De Rosa is creator of ● soupsoup.tumblr.com, which is among the top 25 of the over 2.3 million tumblogs tracked by Compete. NBC New York has chosen him as one of the top 20 people to follow on Twitter,” Impoco said in an internal announcement on Wednesday. Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to a short-form blog.
De Rosa “will integrate what he calls the ‘ambient wire’ that exists on social networks, where news now breaks before anywhere else, into Reuters platforms,” Impoco said. “As part of his mission, he will help our journalists and editors use social media tools to monitor news, report news, and find leads.”
Under his direction, social media “will extend our brand, bring more people to ● Reuters.com, and make Reuters the most recognizable name in news”.
Impoco also announced the appointment of Paul Smalera as deputy op-ed editor. He has joined Reuters from ● Fortune.com, where he was a senior editor responsible for technology coverage and special projects including the online presentation of the Fortune 500. He will commission and edit opinion and commentary pieces.
● SOURCE Reuters
Jim Impoco, executive editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, said the new editor, Anthony De Rosa, was “a product manager and technologist” who had turned a side project into one of the most potent social media platforms around.
“Called ‘The undisputed King of Tumblr’ by the New York Times, De Rosa is creator of ● soupsoup.tumblr.com, which is among the top 25 of the over 2.3 million tumblogs tracked by Compete. NBC New York has chosen him as one of the top 20 people to follow on Twitter,” Impoco said in an internal announcement on Wednesday. Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to a short-form blog.
De Rosa “will integrate what he calls the ‘ambient wire’ that exists on social networks, where news now breaks before anywhere else, into Reuters platforms,” Impoco said. “As part of his mission, he will help our journalists and editors use social media tools to monitor news, report news, and find leads.”
Under his direction, social media “will extend our brand, bring more people to ● Reuters.com, and make Reuters the most recognizable name in news”.
Impoco also announced the appointment of Paul Smalera as deputy op-ed editor. He has joined Reuters from ● Fortune.com, where he was a senior editor responsible for technology coverage and special projects including the online presentation of the Fortune 500. He will commission and edit opinion and commentary pieces.
● SOURCE Reuters
