Stephen J. Adler (born 1955) is an American journalist. He was editor-in-chief of Reuters 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 in 1977 and from

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in 1983.

Career

He began his career as a reporter for '' Tampa Times'' and '' Tallahassee Democrat.'' He joined '' The American Lawyer'' in 1983, then in 1988 joined '' The Wall Street Journal'' 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'' from 2005 to 2009. During his five-year tenure, the magazine and its website won more than 100 awards. He joined Thomson Reuters 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

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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, and is chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review. In addition, he serves on the boards of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Committee to Protect Journalists. He is a member of the

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's board of final judges and the

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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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