Career

He joined Thomson Reuters in 2010 as Senior Vice President and Editorial Director of the company’s Professional Division. In this role, Adler built and directed news operations to deliver original journalism and relevant Reuters content to the millions of subscribers who rely on the company’s business units for information products and services. He was named Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News and Executive Vice President News, Thomson Reuters in 2011, where he directed the editorial operations and news strategy for the company.

Adler was named President and Editor-in-Chief, Reuters in December 2012.

Earlier, he spent sixteen years at The Wall Street Journal. As Deputy Managing Editor, he oversaw the award-winning Wall Street Journal Online, created The Wall Street Journal imprint, and co-taught the ethics and standards course required for all news employees.

Previously he was Editor of The American Lawyer. He began his career as a reporter at local newspapers in Florida, including The Tampa Times.

Adler serves on the boards of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Achievements

• Under Adler’s leadership, Reuters has received scores of top journalism awards around the world, including Reuters first-ever Pulitzer Prize for text reporting in 2014. Before joining Thomson Reuters, Adler was Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek from 2005 to 2009, where, during his five-year tenure, the magazine and its website won more than 100 major journalism awards. As Investigative Editor there, Adler managed reporting teams that won three Pulitzer Prizes between 1995 and 1999. 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.

Works

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  • The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom

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  • The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom by Stephen J. Adler (1994-09-06)

Membership

He is also a member of the International Media Council of the World Economic Forum. The Committee to Protect Journalists board of directors. The Council on Foreign Relations.

And the Gerald R. Loeb Awards board of final judges.