Stephen J. Adler (born 1955) is an American journalist. He was
editor-in-chief
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of
Reuters
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The agency was est ...
from 2011 to 2021.
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
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in 1977 and from
Harvard Law School
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Each c ...
in 1983.
Career
He began his career as a reporter for ''
Tampa Times'' and ''
Tallahassee Democrat
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.''
He joined ''
The American Lawyer
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'' 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
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'' from 2005 to 2009. During his five-year tenure, the magazine and its website won more than 100 awards.
He joined
Thomson Reuters
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in 2010 as senior vice president and editorial director of the company’s Professional Division. 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.
In 2018, he spoke out against the arrest and conviction of two Reuters journalists in
Myanmar
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. He retired from Reuters in 2021.
Adler is chairman of the board of the
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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, and is chairman of the
Columbia Journalism Review
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. In addition, he serves on the boards of the
Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Anton ...
and the
Committee to Protect Journalists
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. He is a member of the
Gerald Loeb Award
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's board of final judges and the
Council on Foreign Relations
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.
Publications
Adler is author of the book ''The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom'', which won the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association.
With his wife, novelist
Lisa Grunwald, he was co-editor of ''Letters of the Century: America 1900—1999'', ''Women’s Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present'',
and ''The Marriage Book''.
References
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1955 births
Living people
American business writers
American legal writers
American magazine editors
Harvard Law School alumni
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers