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The new Reuters and back to the future

The clown-car carousel continues its crazy circuit. Editor-in-chief Stephen Adler has discovered an incredible new editing strategy - a unified global desk. We’ve been going through this yo-yoing between global and regional desks now for four decades or more with a new Christopher Columbus being born every so often to make his name by discovering a new world. Yet who was responsible for some of the Balkanizing miscarriages of recent years such as the Top News Desk and much more? ■