The prestigious British news agency Reuters has recently changed leadership and, for the first time in 170 years, she is a woman, and she is Italian. This is Alessandra Galloni, 47 years old from Rome, foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and former foreign editor of Reuters.
Who is Alessandra Galloni
In its 170-year history, the Reuters news agency that counts today more than 2400 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations around the world it had never been female-led. But women are increasingly asserting themselves professionally and, among the firsts they are conquering, there is also this. Stephen J. Adler, at the helm of Reuters since 2011, will retire at the end of April and, after a long list of directors, the new director will be Alessandra Galloni, Italian journalist who already held the role of foreign editor in the agency.
Galloni speaks 4 languages and boasts a respectable journalistic curriculum. Born in Rome 47 years ago, she graduated from Harvard in 1995 and then pursued a master’s degree at London School Of Economics. He made his debut as a journalist at the agency Associated Press and to the same Reuters. He worked for a total of 13 years at the Wall Street Journal before as an editor and then as correspondent for economics and politics from New York, London, Paris and Rome, professionally rising in rank.
From Reuters Galloni returned in 2013 to cover the role of editorial director of the Southern European bureau, and, three years later, she was promoted to director of Reuters Global News in London, where Thomson Reuters, which has controlled Reuters News since 2008, is based.
The awards were not long in coming. In 2004 Galloni won theOverseas Press Clubnel in the USA and the prize Business Journalist Of The Year the following year in England, for the news coverage of the Parmalat scandal. He had already explained his editorial line some time ago in an interview with First Communication: “The we decide e if something deserves to be told, even if few will look at it, if it is in the public interest, we write it ” then reiterating the need to further invest in foreign correspondents and full-bodied investigations with a focus on climate diplomacy and the importance of data journalism.
Galloni’s first reaction to the news of her appointment as director came with a tweet: “I am honored to lead the best editorial office in the world!“. “A charismatic presence with a passionate interest in business news. He told colleagues that his priorities will include pushing Reuters’ digital and economic components, ”the agency’s website reads. We just have to congratulate Alessandra Galloni for the goal achieved with the hope that female professionalism will have more and more the recognition it deserves.
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