In 170 years of history, the British news agency Reuters it has always been led by men. At the end of April, the change: the Roman journalist will take over from Stephen J. Adler (at the head of the agency since 2011) Alessandra Galloni.

Who is Alessandra Galloni

Forty-seven years old from Rome, Alessandra Galloni graduated in 1995 atHarvard University. In 2002 he completed a master's degree at London School of Economics, speaks four languages ​​and has worked for thirteen years as a correspondent since London, Paris and Rome for the Wall Street Journal. A very important curriculum, accompanied in 2004 by the Overseas Press Club and the award as "Business journalist of the year”For the coverage of the Parmalat crash. Joined Reuters since 2013, now Alessandra Galloni will take over. And so he will direct a staff of 2.450 journalists, located in every corner of the world. “For 170 years, Reuters has been setting the standard for a independent, reliable and global journalism" he said. "It is an honor for me to direct an editorial team full of talented, dedicated and passionate journalists." Michael Friedenberg, president of Reuters, calls his appointment as "a compelling vision for the future of journalism." He then explained: “We examined a lot of personalities, carrying out extensive global research and a highly competitive recruiting process. Alessandra Galloni's name stood out among hundreds of internal and external candidates ”. The credit goes to her career and her awards, and to the esteem that the new director enjoys in the information environment.

The history of Reuters

With a view to optimizing resources, a process implemented by Reuters for some time, Alessandra Galloni will have to be an entrepreneur, a leader and an editor. A real point of reference for the British press agency, in short. How was Reuters born? To know its origins, one has to go back to 1850, when the German Paul Julius Reuter founded a news broadcasting service between Aachen and Brussels using carrier pigeons. The following year, after moving to London, he opened an office for telegraph transmission between the British capital and Paris using the telegraph cable under the English Channel. Thus was born, from a visionary project, an agency capable of providing news to all of Europe by telegraph. An agency that had several merits: it managed to give in a very short time the news of the Franco-Sardinian victory in the Battle of Solferino and San Martino, but also the news of the death of Abraham Lincoln. And then the end of the First World War, and the radio bulletins with the Morse code. A legacy made up of successes, today in the hands of the very Italian Alessandra Galloni.

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